Category Archives: Music

Dolorean’s Violence in the Snowy Fields

No sophomore slump here. In fact, quite the opposite. Dolorean, the Portland, Oregon, based combo fronted by Al James, has followed its 2003 debut Not Exotic with a knockout of a record. Where their previous effort was pared down to … Continue reading

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Pink Martini’s Hang On Little Tomato

Pink Martini, the eclectic jazz-classical-Latin-pop combo based in Portland, Oregon, had a surprise worldwide hit with its debut disc Sympathique in the late 1990s. Since then, they’ve had some major lineup changes (one of the lead vocalists, Pepe Raphael, left … Continue reading

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Gillian Welch and Old Crow Medicine Show, McDonald Theater

Those who are only passingly familiar with the music of Gillian Welch tend to classify her music as bluegrass or old-time or Appalachian. But as she demonstrated on this night, Gillian Welch plays rock music, sometimes disguised as all of … Continue reading

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Las Rubias Del Nortes’ Rumba Internationale

Las Rubias Del Norte is a Brooklyn-based combo that sings a little bit of this, a little bit of that, all of it with a Latin beat, and with sweet, sweet harmonies. The name, of course, is a bit of … Continue reading

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Neck’s here’s mud in yer eye: a Psycho-Ceilídh retrospective

Barkeep, another Guinness please, with a chaser of Irish if you will. Yes, I’ve just listened to far too much really bad Irish and Irish-American music this afternoon while attempting to find one or two discs which our readers won’t … Continue reading

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Various artists’ Cropredy Capers

This review was contributed by Paul Brandon. “This is the story of the twenty-five August weekends which led me there — the story of a band falling apart and coming together, of miracles and mishaps, of weather from the sublime … Continue reading

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Lhasa’s The Living Road

Lhasa de Sela is a Canadian singer who performs a unique blend of acoustic folk and electronica, sung in the three major languages of the North America: French, Spanish and English. This CD is brimming with passionate melody and rhythm … Continue reading

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Amelia’s After All

Amelia is a four-piece combo based in Portland, Oregon, that rose from the ashes of the late-’90s alt-country band the Flatirons, which made one critically lauded album before splitting apart. Guitarist Scott Weddle, drummer Richard Cuellar Jr., and bassist and … Continue reading

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Tres Chicas’ Sweetwater

Duos are common in country music, but trios are less so. These three chicas have all made varying marks on the folk and alt-country scenes, and have been getting together for a while to sing and play. Finally this year … Continue reading

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K. Sridhar, et al., Raga Madhukauns, Raga Piloo; Pandit Nikhil Banerjee, et al., Raga Piloo

The Indian raga, which has enjoyed variable popularity in the West since the 1970s under the influence of a number of musicians from various backgrounds and, if we may speak of such a thing, “schools” (George Harrison and Terry Riley … Continue reading

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