On this follow-up to their fine debut, If I Knew Now What I Knew Then, Hot Rod Circuit refines their sound, tightening things up and only vaguely approximating the oft-compared emo-core artists like the Get Up Kids. The melodic focus and energy of the group's indie pop (not to mention eventual label affiliation with emo's greatest names on Vagrant Records) solicit the obvious comparisons, but Hot Rod Circuit (guitarist/vocalist Andy Jackson, guitarist Casey Prestwood, bassist,...   [ read more ]

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For a brief moment in the early '60s, Louisiana swamp pop singer Rod Bernard's tune "This Should Go on Forever" was so enormous that he was featured on {#American Bandstand}, the only artist from that specific geographic region, playing that style of music, to ever appear on that TV show. Trivia aside, Bernard's R&B/Cajun hybrid still holds up and is revisited on this 22-track Essential Collection, and includes two New Orleans R&B standards from the pen of Dave Bartholomew and {$...   [ read more ]

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Greenwich Village in the mid-'80s was an unparalleled meeting place for the contemporary generation of songwriters. The group of writers who were drawn there and worked in the various clubs and co-ops that made up the scene have gone on to form the core of this country's important singer/songwriters. Gadfly Records has had the good sense to reissue Rod MacDonald's 1985 album, White Buffalo. It was originally released in a slightly different form by Autogram in Germany in 1985, then in Canada on the M...   [ read more ]

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