Sorry I haven’t been around much lately. I promised myself last year that I would no longer put blogging first in my life when there are other things to do. And there have been other things to do! When it rains here in So Cal–and it has rained a LOT–it’s time to [...]

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Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom

I recently heard “Gladhander” as one of KCRW’s Songs of the Day, and that was all it took for me to scour the interwebs for Stripmall Architecture, the husband-wife duo Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom from San Francisco. Of their two current albums, Object03 is the older but both it and the [...]

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6. Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is!

The Lost Highway record label debut of this great Austin, TX soul and blues band led by Joe Lewis is pretty good. The production is great and the songs are tight and jumping.
from Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is!
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HAPPY 2010! We’re celebrating today with the first half of Uncle T’s favorite albums of 2009.
1. Heartless Bastards - The Mountain

This third effort is essentially an Erika Wennerstrom solo CD with great production work by Mike McCarthy (Spoon), recorded after the departure of the band’s bassist and drummer and before the latest players had [...]

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