Write About Love By Belle and Sebastian (Matador Records, 2010) I have a really bad attitude about the clever, collegiate, and self-consciously catchy indie...
Author - Danny Duncan Collum
Los Lobos (Shout Factory!, 2010) Former Secretary of Labor Linda Chavez, among others, has argued that current levels of immigration from Mexico are somehow...
The Gaslight Anthem (Side One Dummy, 2010) If your idea of rock and roll requires three-chord guitars, bass and drums, and a dead-earnest sense of commitment...
Mary Gauthier (Razor and Tie, 2010) Singer-songwriter extraordinaire Mary Gauthier (“go-shay”) has a voice like a rusty string on a slide guitar. But that...
Natalie Merchant (Nonesuch Records, 2010) In those last few brick-and-mortar record stores still out there, you may find Leave Your Sleep in the...
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (Nonesuch Records, 2010) I lost interest in David Byrne about 20 years ago. After the Talking Heads, he became a hipster...
American VI: Ain’t No Grave Johnny Cash (American Records, 2010) As the world knows from the bio-pic Walk the Line (20th Century Fox), Johnny Cash was no...
Crows (Rykodisc, 2010) Allison Moorer Last night I warned a college writing class against assuming that the "speaker" of a poem was in fact the poet...
Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard (F-Stop/Atlantic Record/2009) Since his death in 1969, beat novelist Jack Kerouac has become a pop-culture perennial. Each...
The Avett Brothers (Sony, 2009) The Avett Brothers are a sibling pair from North Carolina that for several years has been building a reputation as bluegrass...
