Articles by John Holmes

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  Revival Dear

  Revival Dear

  PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2008

  Revival Dear play shameless good-time country rock as if the last three decades had never happened. The Band are their most obvious influen...

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  Callers

  Fortune

  PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2008

  The most striking aspect of Callers’ music is Sara Lucas’s voice. Often reminiscent of Portishead’s Beth Gibbons’ otherworldly wail, it dom...

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  Husband and Knife

  An End

  PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2008

  KC Spidle plays unplugged music but there’s a rock’n’roller in him waiting to get out. Many of the songs on An End, his second album under...

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  Deromantic

  Deromantic

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  Steve Puchalski isn’t the most talented singer-songwriter on the planet. His lyrics are clunky and his musicianship is conventional. Yet as...

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  Taylor Hollingsworth

  Bad Little Kitty

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2008

  Like a particularly good bar musician, Taylor Hollingsworth has a song to suit every mood. Over Bad Little Kitty’s 19 tracks, he covers eve...