My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
Rough Trade, 2008 7.5 out of 10 stars Never has a record so wrong-footed me like Evil Urges has. Louisville’s My Morning Jacket were always a band with broad influences in their sound. 2005’s Z was...
View ArticleWebcuts Top 25 Albums of 2008
Arguably, it could’ve been a better reviewed year for Webcuts, but nascent sites do have their ups and downs… 2008 was without a doubt an exceptional year for music. Without revealing too much from our...
View ArticleVarious Artists – Dark Was The Night
4AD, 2009 9 out of 10 stars Released in collaboration with AIDS charity the Red Hot Organization, Dark Was The Night is the latest in a long-standing series of compilation albums put together to raise...
View ArticleOdawas – Into the Blue with Michael Tapscott (2009)
Odawas, whose name was taken from a native American tribe, were formed in Bloomington Indiana by songwriter and vocalist Michael Tapscott (who also plays guitar, keyboards and harmonica) and arranger...
View ArticleMy Morning Jacket – Circuital
ATO, 2011 7 out of 10 stars My Morning Jacket are a blessed example of a genre derided by its bourbon-slick riffery and lyrical down-on-the-farm, blacked-out-in-a-bar banalities. My Morning Jacket,...
View ArticleA Half-Time Look At Webcuts Top 11 Of 2011
It hasn’t been an amazing year for music, but surely an entertaining one. Lots of new acts jockeying for position amongst the wily veterans, and plenty of debate even as early as June over love ‘em-or...
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