Biirdie
Catherine Avenue
Love Minus Zero
A band like Biirdie could only be from California, with their Beach Boys/Byrds stacked harmonies and the laconic yet melodic musical accompaniment. Sure enough, they hail from Glendale, California. This second album for the trio of two guys and a girl takes the classic Gram Parsons knockoffs [...]
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No Depression & Me: A Retrospective, With Local Color
The news of Alt-country chronicler No Depression’s decision to cease publication of the magazine’s print edition with the May-June issue this year has been making the rounds of the surviving media outlets for a couple weeks now, and I can’t say I’d fault their logic in reaching [...]
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Ben Vaughn Combo’s Beautiful Thing album reissued
If it’s true that one’s musical tastes are set in college, and the artists one latches onto then are the ones that resonate throughout one’s life, then Ben Vaughn is a major musical touchstone for me. Now that his best album has just been reissued, perhaps some other clueless [...]
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