THE SHABELLES – A Happy Man (2006 Laundry Basket) A name like “the Shabelles” conjures up images of 60s girl bands, some sort of imagined supergroup combining the Shangri-Las with LaBelle. So much for judging a band
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THE SHABELLES – A Happy Man (2006 Laundry Basket) A name like “the Shabelles” conjures up images of 60s girl bands, some sort of imagined supergroup combining the Shangri-Las with LaBelle. So much for judging a band
JOHN STATZ – Dusk Came Slow (2006 Self-Release) John Statz is a singer/songwriter in the most traditional sense. His debut CD Dusk Came Slow has more in common with James Taylor than with John Mayer. At fifteen tracks and topping fifty
BLAKE THOMAS – 40 Minutes (2006 Self-Release) Thankfully, 40 Minutes runs to almost fifty, and not one minute is wasted. The title of Blake Thomas’s second release comes from its penultimate track, a sweetly strummed waltz that like every
DOC HEIDE AND THE PILLS – Peaceful Kingdom (2005 Self-Release) Doc Heide comes from Packer country, where he’s better known as an actor, a writer of screenplays and musicals, a co-founder of the American Folklore Theater
WANDERING SONS – Darken Your Door (2005 Fuse) Things are going quite well for the Wandering Sons. Even as they work on their upcoming full-length Little Bird, the first pressing of last year’s Darken Your Door
TURN BLUE – Fire Like TV (2006 Utopian Vendor) It speaks volumes for the progress of home recording when two guys in Green Bay can record an entire record on a laptop without ever leaving the
NICK VENTURELLA – Sweetsonic (2006 OatMeal Records) Remember the dancing-in-the-library scene from The Breakfast Club? In one of the movie’s most memorable sequences, the detentionees bop and boogie on tables and atop bookshelves with delightful abandon
MAERAE – More Please (2006 Self-Release) Lisa Hinzman spent many years plunking the electric bass and doing backing vocals in some of Madison’s favorite bands (the Quickies, NoahJohn), so it was a bit of a surprise
DAVID LANDAU – Kids and Kitties (2005 Milkbreak Music) There are two types of movies for children: the ones that are strictly for kids (anything involving the Rugrats, Clifford or Winnie the Pooh) and those that
BUZZ MEADE – Reflect the Light (2005 Self-Release) Some fun facts about Buzz Meade: He was only 16 when he released the first of four five-song EPs that preceded Reflect the Light, his first full-length album.
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