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Georgia-born singer/songwriter Butch Walker is something of a paradox. Over his decade-plus career, he's found moderate success as a member of the punk-pop outfit Marvelous 3 and as a producer whose credits include the likes of Bowling for Soup , Avril Lavigne , and current left-field novelty Katy Perry . Yet while he undeniably plays well with others, one can argue that his best work can be found in his solo output, which ironically has failed to make him a household name. After three albums across just as many major labels, Walker is [...]

Would you like some cheese to go with that Iron & Wine ? If so, Joshua Radin will be more than happy to oblige. Arriving two years after his Zach Braff -endorsed debut We Were Here , the all-too-aptly titled Simple Times doesn't appear to have moved too far away from wherever Here was. Like that album, it's another inoffensive, uninspiring set of indistinguishable love songs that range from subtle to slight to saccharine. Maybe I'm being too hard on him. After all, there are more than [...]

Would you like some cheese to go with that Iron & Wine ? If so, Joshua Radin will be more than happy to oblige. Arriving two years after his Zach Braff -endorsed debut We Were Here , the all-too-aptly titled Simple Times doesn't appear to have moved too far away from wherever Here was. Like that album, it's another inoffensive, uninspiring set of indistinguishable love songs that range from subtle to slight to saccharine. Maybe I'm being too hard on him. After all, there are more than [...]

Would you like some cheese to go with that Iron & Wine ? If so, Joshua Radin will be more than happy to oblige. Arriving two years after his Zach Braff -endorsed debut We Were Here , the all-too-aptly titled Simple Times doesn't appear to have moved too far away from wherever Here was. Like that album, it's another inoffensive, uninspiring set of indistinguishable love songs that range from subtle to slight to saccharine. Maybe I'm being too hard on him. After all, there are more than [...]

Everyone can relax. Kevin Barnes has gotten over the break-up and is doing much better this time around. After the high drama and catharsis of last year's epically dark Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? , Barnes and the rest of Of Montreal have dusted themselves off and returned to the celebratory psych-pop days of old with the anything but Skeletal Lamping . Contrary to its qualifier, Lamping is huge, busting at the seams with ideas, style shifts, and sexed-up enthusiasm. Barnes would appear to have reached the epiphany that the best [...]

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Apparently last year's Friend Opportunity wasn't friendly enough, or maybe it was too friendly. Whatever the case may have been, Deerhoof try for the best of both worlds on that album's follow-up, Offend Maggie . The band continues to embrace its new-found accessibility while reviving some of the sprawling ambition of its 2005 epic The Runners Four . Now, I'm not sure who this Maggie person is or what she has done to provoke these guys, but I'm curious to know what she thinks of this new batch of songs, as they don't offend [...]

Arguably the Andrew Ridgeley to Ben Gibbard's better known George Michael in the mid-90s band Pinwheel, Army Navy front man Justin Kennedy has his work cut out for him if he hopes to make a name for himself solo. So far, judging from his new band's self-titled debut, he sounds content to just play it [...]

Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before: a singer/songwriter branches out from his or her band to release a collection of "solo material." The inevitable blog buzz builds. Chatter rises about potential turmoil within the group. Some people even celebrate the idea that an artist can finally explore and express new ideas [...]

Like the old saying goes, the show must go on, and on it does go for Okkervil River on The Stand Ins, the quickly crafted (barely a year after their last effort) but skillfully executed sequel to 2007's The Stage Names. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor thematically as well as literally, it's another [...]

What is this growing fascination that aging electronic acts have with film music? Massive Attack took a shot at it a few years back with their soundtrack for "Danny the Dog." Saint Etienne followed suit with music for "What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day?". There were even rumors that Radiohead would be scoring the [...]