The Morning Line – Stars
The San Francisco quartet—led by Stephen Smith’s Costello-ish rasp and Brian Mello’s jangling guitar—pulls 21 tracks spanning two decades (including two new singles),...
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Weird Nightmare – Hoopla
Weird Nightmare’s second album, Hoopla is a bright, fuzzed-out triumph of guitar-pop songwriting. Alex Edkins, best known as the frontman of noise-rock bruisers METZ,...
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The Oh Wells – Does The Sun Rise Vol. 2
You’ll remember Ira Merrill from one of Seattle’s two best power pop bands of all time, Super Deluxe (the other being The Heats). Does The Sun Rise Vol II is the second...
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The Honeymoon Stallions’ Bona Fide
The latest from The Honey Stallions, Bona Fide, is an overdue but worthy follow-up to 2012’s Moonlighting. It may have been over a decade since their last release but...
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The Amplifier Heads – Super 8
Super 8 by The Amplifier Heads is a joyous blast of pure rock ’n’ roll from Boston’s Sal Baglio (The Stompers) and collaborators including Kevin “King” Rapillo on drums...
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