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1. Neko Case: The Tigers Have Spoken
"In the press release that accompanies Neko Case's 2004 live album, The Tigers Have Spoken, the singer (and her record company) insist quite strongly that this isn't meant to be a stopgap release...read more
2. Neko Case: Blacklisted
"While the spare and often haunted sound of Neko Case's home-recorded Canadian Amp EP seemed at the time like a late-night detour from alt-country's leading songbird of the North, listening to Ca...read more
3. Neko Case & Her Boyfriends: Furnace Room Lullaby
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4. Neko Case & Her Boyfriends: The Virginian
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5. Drive-By Truckers: A Blessing and A Curse
With A Blessing and a Curse, the Drive-By Truckers take a step back from their concept-album approach for the first time since their breakthrough -- most of the album's 11 songs were written in t...read more
6. Drive-By Truckers: Gangstabilly
The Drive-By Truckers don't need an agenda to be a good band. Sure, Southern Rock Opera more or less anointed the Truckers as a smarter, more attentive Lynyrd Skynyrd, and critics, in turn, made t...read more
7. Drive-By Truckers: Pizza Deliverance
An Alabama alt-country band puts out an album named Pizza Deliverance -- sounds like a gimmick, right? Another band taking potshots at double-wides, velvet Elvises, and appearances on Cops, r...read more
8. M. Ward: Hold Time
Matt Ward is one of those characters who does things in such an understated manner that it’s easy to forget just how jaw-droppingly talented he is. M. Ward’s seventh album, Hold Time, w...read more
9. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: Beware
The longer he runs with his Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy quasi-persona, the more natural and free Will Oldham sounds. Because his songs (not just as Billie) have so powerfully mixed humor, sex...read more
10. The Handsome Family: Honey Moon
This is, surprisingly from this dark duo, an album of love songs. I was going to crack that finally they’ve given us an album where nobody gets murdered, but then I noticed that one of the love son...read more
11. Phosphorescent: Here's to Taking It Easy
Summer's approaching and we all dream of lying around and doing a whole lot of nothing, but the title of the new Phosphorescent album could give you pause: Making music sound easy is usually pretty...read more
12. Band of Horses: Infinite Arms
The new and third Band of Horses album is being jointly released by an odd trio of indie and major labels, but fans care about just one thing: those harmonies. Infinite Arms has them in spades, sta...read more
13. v/a: Baby, How Can It Be?
Another instant classic from the Dust-to-Digital label, Baby, How Can It Be? neatly arranges three discs of old-time country-blues and hot jazz into romantically themed segments: love, lust and con...read more
14. Neil Young & the International Harvesters: A Treasure
This is an odd but most welcome addition to the Neil Young Archives series. A Treasure is the first installment in the Archives to document one of Young's more notorious periods—a live concert from...read more
15. Jim Ford: Harlan County
Original badass Jim Ford had just one studio album released during his lifetime, but 1969's Harlan County is so good it cemented him as a legend (it didn't hurt that his songs have been covered by ...read more
16. Blitzen Trapper: American Goldwing
On their third album for Sub Pop, Portland, Oregon's Blitzen Trapper both loosen up and toughen up their '70s country-rock sound. What this veteran band does wisely is mix and match aspects of that...read more
17. Drive-By Truckers: Go-Go Boots
The Drive-By Truckers don't need an agenda to be a good band. Sure, Southern Rock Opera more or less anointed the Truckers as a smarter, more attentive Lynyrd Skynyrd, and critics, in turn, made t...read more