By Michael Byrne
Published on January 8, 2009 at 1:41am
The Sour Notes’ (pictured) allure is an easy one–dreary yet rich pop ballads from Texas that ease you through the gloom with melodic charm and earnest sweetness. It’s not Pedro the Lion sour by any stretch, but their world has seen brighter days. It’s broadly what you’d call indie, and middle-of-the-road indie at that, but with indie music busy trying to outweird itself right now, the Sour Notes make a surprisingly refreshing sort of conservative music done well–it’s stuff that sticks to the ribs, as they say. And, well, Jana Hunter’s heady folk-pop has been sticking to Baltimore’s ribs for a good while now, but we’re awfully excited to see her perform in a space as wee as the Zodiac. Make sure you inappropriately scream something about releasing a new album already.
By Audra Schroeder
Published on January 2, 2009 at 1:41am
1. Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band, The Golden Calves (Business Deal)
2. The Sour Notes, The Meat of the Fruit
3. Mammoth Grinder, Rage and Ruin (Depleted Resource)
4. The Ape-Shits, La Pollution Culturelle (Super Secret)
5. Silver Pines, Forces
6. Pillow Queens, Kookoolegit (Monofonus Press)
7. When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Not Noiice (Chalk Circle)
8. Gretchen Phillips, I Was Just Comforting Her (Seasick Sailor)
9. My Education, Bad Vibrations (Strange Attractors Audio House)
10. Murdocks, Roar! Roar! Roar! (Surprise Truck)
By Darcie Stevens
Published on January 2, 2009 at 1:41am
1. The Sour Notes, The Meat of the Fruit
2. Balmorhea, Rivers Arms (Western Vinyl)
3. White Denim, Exposion (Transmission Entertainment)
4. Shearwater, Rook (Matador)
5. The Black Angels, Directions to See a Ghost (Light in the Attic)
6. Eliza Gilkyson, Beautiful World (Red House)
7. Red Leaves, By Road or Rail
8. The Sword, Gods of the Earth (Kemado)
9. The Moonhangers, The Last of the New York Sessions (Bloodchili)
10. Horse + Donkey, Dreams
By Austin Powell
Published on January 2, 2009 at 1:41am
By Darcie Stevens
Published on January 2, 2009 at 1:41am
BEETS Foot Patrol
CALIGIURI Dustin Welch & the House Band
FAWCETT Rae Davis
FREEMAN The Eastern Sea
HAUPT White Denim
HOFFBERGER Hacienda
HERNANDEZ Harlem
MEE Woodgrain
MOSER Iron City Soul Shakers
POWELL Mammoth Grinder
SCHROEDER Shapes Have Fangs
STEVENS The Sour Notes
TRACHTENBERG Cheap Fire
