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20 Signs of Life in 2002
The CMJ Music Marathon is aptly named: four nights of racing from venue to venue to subway to venue to late-night sushi to venue, hoping to discover something special among the hundreds of artists performing throughout lower Manhattan. While the 24-member Polyphonic Spree with their horns, harp and choir robes were a joy to behold, it was on the quiet Thursday afternoon at the Museum of Television and Radio in Midtown where I was most impressed. That’s when I heard Sondre Lerche. The garage rock of his neighboring Swedes (The Hives, the Hellacopters and the Flaming Sideburns) might be getting... read more
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The dark, cinematic drama of Tom Waits’ double dose of grim art in Alice and Blood Money came as an antidote ... read more
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When critics began raving about Burke’s comeback album, more than a few fools in the crowd asked "Solomon who?" ... read more
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Call it maturity, call it confidence, call it natural progression, but without doubt Neko Case is moving forward as an artist. ... read more
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In an era when the term "folk music" seems applied to any artist who uses acoustic instruments, few albums truly exhibit the inscrutable mystery and inescapable desperation ... read more
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When Blue Note invited the world to "come away" with newcomer Norah Jones last February, the jazz label probably didn’t expect nearly four million ... read more
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Like Wilco, Josh Rouse has intentionally shed the misguided alt-country tag without sacrificing indie credibility. ... read more
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If the blues give you the strength to face another day but leave you to face it on your own, gospel promises, or at least holds out the possibility, that tomorrow may be different, better. —Craig Werner read more
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In 1998 David Gray, victim of the serial label droppers, sat back in his bedroom and tinkered with a few new songs, adding a little sampled ambience ... read more
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If the squeaky wheel gets the grease, Ryan Adams must be one of the slickest characters in music at the moment. ... read more
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