Articles by Matt Charlton

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  Jack Grace

  I Like It Wrong

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  With influences ranging all the way from Hank Williams to Hank Williams III, Jack Grace is a straightforward old-time country crooner. Alth...

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  Shelby Lynne

  Identity Crisis

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  Genre exercises are usually leery affairs. An artist that wants to join multiple groups of fans in the celebration of him or herself usuall...

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  Radiotones

  Bound to Ride

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  There is something charmingly ironic about naming your band the Radiotones when your singer sounds like Gargamel after a night of hard drin...

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  Ken Reaume

  Ken Reaume

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  Rarely does music as starkly affecting as Ken Reaume’s eight-song debut come along. Recorded in his bedroom, each song on the album is a sp...

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  Clothes Make the Man

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  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2003

  On their second EP, Clothes Make the Man have offered up six truly great rusted-out rock songs. Sounding like Dinosaur Jr. working towards...

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  Barlow

  Barlow

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

  The term "The Shitty Shawn Mullins” (or the shittier Shawn Mullins to more discerning circles) isn’t just thrown around lightly. It’s in go...

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  Low Skies

  The Bed

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2003

  Low Skies’ debut, The Bed, is a thunderingly dark album that ultimately sounds like Nick Cave’s score to a nightmare. The band tightly weav...

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  Shannon Lyon

  Wandered

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2003

  Kitchener, Ontario native Shannon Lyon’s Wandered is a low-key affair that flirts with beauty but ultimately ends up opting for convention....