All Posts by Kiki Schueler

BLUEHEELS – The Only Dance You Know (2009   Self-Release) When a band generates quality new songs as quickly as the Blueheels do, a live record hardly seems like the logical next step.  Live CDs are typically


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NATIONAL BEEKEEPERS SOCIETY – Pawn Shop Etiquette (2008 Self-Release) There have been two big changes to the National Beekeepers Society since they released their debut in 2006.  The first, and arguably most significant, is that Karl


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SPINNING SWORDS – We’re Trying So Hard (2006   Self-Release) We’re Trying so Hard sounds like it was recorded in a big empty room with wood floors, full of echoes.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that,


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PAPER TIGER – Chemistry (2006   Self-Release) Given its rather negative connotation, you have to wonder if the boys in Paper Tiger actually knew what that phrase meant when they chose it as a moniker.  Usually applied


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THE WINDOW SMASHERS – This Is Pre-Coital Rock (2006   Belial Records) Talk about making a good first impression, this CD sports some classy packaging.   The matchbook-style case, a limited series of 300, is a work of


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RITT DIETZ – Collected (2006   Uvulittle Records) Hearing songs from early in someone’s career is often like reading their journal, a glimpse into what they were thinking and feeling at that point in their life.  Collected


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SLEEPING IN THE AVIARY – Oh, This Old Thing? (2007    Science of Sound) I’ll admit it, I was just the tiniest bit disappointed on my first listen to Sleeping in the Aviary’s debut CD Oh, This


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BURR SETTLES – Live Indy Folk (2006   download only) Burr Settles played his last Madison show of the year in November, and his local fans likely won’t get another chance to see him live until he


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BLUEHEELS – Long Gone (2006   Self-Release) I listened to this CD, I wrote the review, and even sent it off to the copy editor.  Usually that’s when I put a CD back in its case, put


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NATIONAL BEEKEEPERS SOCIETY – National Beekeepers Society (2006   Self-Release) With ten songs in twenty-seven minutes, the National Beekeepers Society seem to have taken a page from Weezer’s playbook: rock as hard as you can for thirty


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