Having been an ardent follower of the excellent label SST during its heyday, I was already quite familiar with the sun-damaged country punk of Arizona’s Meat Puppets by the time they’d “graduated” to a major label. Their second album for London Records, Too High To Die, originally unsheathed in 1994, is a straight up classic [...]
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By now the word is out that there’s a group menacing the globe, consisting of Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal, Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters and John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin. They are referred to as Them Crooked Vultures and farmers in Lower Backwardistan are locking [...]
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Built To Spill brings their seventh studio album, There Is No Enemy, to a fan base starved for new material since 2006’s You In Reverse. The Boise, Idaho, quintet (originally a trio) has been steadily gaining followers due to their nearly 17 years of recording and touring, bringing a refreshing sound that has now become [...]
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