CD Review: Red Light Rabbit by The Quick and Easy Boys

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Trio touring rabidly now 9/15/10 –  8×10 w/ The Bridge – Baltimore, MD 9/16/10 –  The Saint – Asbury Park 9/17/10 –  Beatniks w/ Ten Foot Polecats – Worcester, MA 9/18/10 –  Triumph Brewing – New Hope, PA 9/19/10 –  Larry’s – Danbury, CT 9/20/10 –  Rock Shop – Brooklyn, NY 9/21/10 –  Bug Jar [...]

CD Review: Fat Freddy’s Drop – Live At Roundhouse London

Fat Freddy’s Drop self-define their music as reggae or soul or reggae jazz or power funk or …. but ever since a friend turned me onto them a couple of years ago, I’ve just thought of them as wildly weird, with more than a hint of wonderful. This New Zealand group is not easy to [...]

CD Review: Asylum by Disturbed

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Turns out it wasn’t the voices in my head I was hearing – it’s the new Disturbed CD.

CD REVIEW: Going the Distance Soundtrack

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I wanted this soundtrack for one reason only – to check out an acoustic version of The Airborne Toxic Event’s new song, “Half of Something Else.” Forget “check out,” TATE’s music at its best hovers over you, giving butterfly kisses to your ears and enveloping you in a warmth for which people spend their whole [...]

REVIEW: Natural EP by Antonia Bennett

Both “Puttin’ On the Ritz” and “Love Is A Battlefield” bring memories of so many different voices trying on their mantles. There are some songs such as “Careless Whisper”, “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” Pearl Jam’s “Immortality” which, for me, have the base strength to carry any style from any artist who cover them, whether [...]

REVIEW: This Can’t Be My Life by Ruth Gerson

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REVIEW: Knitting Songs by Savannah Jo Lack

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Was Going To Wait but … Take Your Medicine, The Quick & Easy Boys

Found about this Portland, Oregon band, The Quick & Easy Boys and I was going to hold on for a CD review of their sophomore release (ooh, dirty), Red Light Rabbit. But hell, this is too good. Yep, easy going, polished and unbelievably energetic with great vocals. The keys in the ribcage from the video, [...]

Funstyle – Liz Phair … wish you were here?

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(SOUNDLUST REVIEW) — So as I was writing this review I fell asleep and dream-pictured Liz Phair, hands over bent-up knees, her face large-lipped, large-headed, floating above a small-bodied cartoon caricature, talking to people on stage with her. Not her band but fans, who’d crowded into this little anonymous, low-ceilinged place to listen to her [...]

Authority Zero – Stories of Survival

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(SOUNDLUST REVIEW) — “Hello, girls and boys. Today we’re going to make music. Happy music and sad music. Funny music and serious music. Music that has many of the feelings we have. So get your instrument and come along with me. Let’s put some of our feelings into music.” — Wake Up Call. I want [...]