Like many music fans, I found the 2006 arrival of Portland, Oregon-based quintet The Decemberists' "The Crane Wife" to be a breath of fresh air. With alternative rock and every form of pop worth listening to in a bit of...
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July 6, 2010 3:47 PM
Friends, I've been on a brief hiatus... got the flu, then I got Holy Week and Easter, then I got a few days off to go see John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg at Eden Seminary's Spring Convocation, and then...
On its seventh studio album, Wilco gets comfortable in its own unique skin, albeit eccentric, noisy and emotionally complex skin, and delivers its best album yet. And calls it, of course, "Wilco (the album)."
When an artist, even one as independent and free-thinking as Steve Earle revisits the songs and legacy of their major influence, mentor and/or hero, it can be a somber, more bitter than sweet affair. When you
The Fray - a Denver based piano-based pop/rock quartet - have stumbled on the new century's best promotional devise for breaking new music: getting songs from "How to Save a Life," the band's '05 debut, placed
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