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The Celebrity Orphans
Reviews - Album Reviews
By Red Lehman   
Monday, 12 May 2008

celebrityorphans_thumb The Celebrity Orphans - The Celebrity Orphans
Self Released (2008)

If sex came in tubes of toothpaste, The Celebrity Orphans squeeze out 39 minutes worth on their new self-titled album. Up-tempo rocksters like "Hello," "You Got Nothin," and "Let Me Tell You" are ferociously danceable with BC Campbell and company telling the entire world just who's doing the messin' around now.

Take a listen to slinky "Hello" and you can imagine mister broken-heart deciding he was done being the victim: "notify my next of kin...cause you and me are gonna sin." Or take the delta-bluesy "Let Me Tell You" where BC announces, "Listen my pretty to my little ditty cuz what do you got to lose?" Slow burners like "Broken Night" and "I Need You" (with beautiful, haunting back-up vocals from bassist Angelina Baldoz) draw comparison to Chris Isaac while the terra firma terror on "Rollercoaster" and the bouncy 70's "Car Crash" compare favorably to the Talking Heads.

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Tapes n' Tapes: Sophomore Release Nestles Nicely in Modern Indie Category
Reviews - Album Reviews
By Chris Klepac   
Monday, 12 May 2008

tapesntapes_thumb Tapes n' Tapes - Walk it Off
Beggars Xl Recording (2008)

The buzz around Tapes n' Tapes is that they were one of the first "blog bands" brought to real world fame by an enthusiastic Internet campaign. The is that they are just some nice boys who met at Minnesota's Carleton College and put out a couple of albums of catchy indie rock that is somehow both austere and funky.

2005's The Loon introduced a mix of earnest, slightly goofy confusion and tight, ornate rock songs that hearkened back to Spoon, The Feelies, and The Pixies. Their second LP, Walk It Off, is more lush but hardly more subdued.

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Back to the Future: Black Mountain Revive Stoner Rock; Release Album of the Year
Reviews - Album Reviews
By Matt Ashworth, High Potentate   
Thursday, 01 May 2008

blackmountain_thumb Black Mountain- In the Future
Jagjaguwar Records (2008)

If you would have told me six months ago that I’d spend the first half of 2008 gushing over a record steeped in the classic rock sounds of the 70s I would have probably scoffed pretentiously and muttered something about the forthcoming Magnetic Fields album.

Enter In the Future: the sophomore release from Canadian retro-rock revivalists Black Mountain. Ten perfectly executed tracks of booming, intricate rock and spooky folk woven in to a flawless tapestry of awesomeness.

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The Beltholes - Probably Stuck Gum under Your Desk in High School
Reviews - Album Reviews
By Nada Overlord   
Monday, 21 April 2008

They were almost called Two Arms.The Beltholes
For Whom the Beltholes

Burn Burn Burn Records
(2007)
By Red Lehman

I had no idea how to start this review. I considered an analogy to being “on the last belt hole” after eating too much turkey or mentioning that the album has a sample of “Stayin’ Alive,” mentions Eddie and the Cruisers and ends with the word “cocaine” and a cat’s meow. None of these sounded opener-worthy.

Thankfully, when the band took the stage during a recent Tractor Tavern appearance, guitarist Kurt Bloch summed it up nicely: “If the last song wasn’t your thing, then your song is coming up next.”

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Peep P-Town: Your April Installment
Features - Peep P-Town: A Quick Look at the Portland Music Scene
By Ryan Wines   
Wednesday, 16 April 2008

derby_thumb Derby
Derby has spent the past four years in virtual training, preparing and patiently waiting their turn to fight for the prize and win the girl. However some have wondered if Derby is ever going to really reach their moment of truth. Well, dear Derbsters, your time has come!

By the time their new record, Posters Fade, hits iPods and record stores this summer, you'd better take cover and try to catch one last glimpse of the Derby rocket as it blasts off.

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Promote This - A Kid Named Paul on a Kid Named Thompson
Features - Promote This, Beeyatch
By Paul W. Richardson   
Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Well, actually THREE kids, but whatever.A Kid Named Thompson
I Want To Wake Up
Self-released, 2007

A Kid Named Thompson brings to the collective rock table a uniquely Texas-punk meets emo-core CD that delivers the goods. I Want to Wake Up features quality production and thoughtful lyrics backed by a three piece that sounds like they’ve been around, although I suspect these Texas kids are new to the rock game.

The lyrics have the polish that reflects the agility of an Xbox generation eager to add to the already crowded room that holds Emo bands in the highest regard. I distinctly hear the talent and agility, but I also hear reflections of Sunny Day Real Estate arm wrestling with Motion City Soundtrack in the back-stage parking lot at a Van’s Warped Tour show in SoCal.

 

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The Pack A.D. - Two Rugged Cowgirls Make Their Mark on Rock-n-Roll
Reviews - Album Reviews
By P.W. Richardson   
Monday, 07 April 2008
Sword fight!The Pack A.D. - Tintype
2007 Mint Records

The Pack A.D. is a duo from British Columbia championing the old-skool sound. Each track on their 2007 release Tintype, on Vancouver's Mint Records, is a blast of raw emotion and minimalist technique.

Maya Miller & Becky Black, drums and guitar/vocals respectively, have managed to bring together a unique vision for the tried-and-true duo-rock approach (White Stripes, Black Keys, The Shotgun). They keep it simple and maintain a blues ethos that could be traced straight back to the likes of Robert Johnson by way of Howlin Wolf, Etta James, Tammy Wynette, and Chan Marshall.

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Dropkick Murphys Bring Out Andy Bookwalter’s Secret Skinhead
Live - Music
By Andy Bookwalter   
Sunday, 30 March 2008

This dude likes to scream.Dropkick Murphys at Showbox Sodo
February 28, 2008


Dropkick Murphys are the greatest band in the world, and I’ll stab anyone who says otherwise.

Lumped in with plenty of great-but-inferior street punk bands like The Swingin’ Utters, Flogging Molly and The Bouncing Souls, DKM remind me what punk rock meant before my life crushed my delicate spirit.

I was a small town teenage slacker in the early 80’s, and punk promised me a community and an escape from suburban mediocrity. Punk then broke that promise, as will any subculture based on teen angst and beer.

After a few years of watching one dive punk bar after another become condos and parking lots, I got bitter. Then one day I heard “Cadence To Arms,” the opening shot from DKM’s Do or Die and it all came back to me.

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South by Southwest Diary: Day 3 - Ecstatically Peaceful
Live - Music
By Dan Lurie   
Sunday, 23 March 2008
sxsw_dan_winnerSXSW - Day 3 Recap
Friday, March 14


It's Friday morning and the bloody marys are flowing like mountain spring water at the Red Eyed Fly. We show up as the club doors open and start chugging the vegetable-fortified beverages, a plastic cup in each free hand. Eight essential vitamins plus vodka, what more could you ask for?

The Magic Bullets, hailing from San Francisco, take the stage. There's nothing new about their sound, but the gangly lead singer (whose wingspan might rival Kevin Garnett's) does a nice job of captivating the crowd by swaying back and forth like an alder tree in a windstorm.
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