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Justin Wesley

CD Review: Overseas "Overseas"

There's an unmissable serendipity blanketing the ten songs that comprise the debut LP from Overseas, a collaboration between music heavyweights Will Johnson (Centro-matic, South San Gabriel), David Bazan (Pedro the Lion, Headphones), and brothers Matt Kadane and Bubba Kadane (The New Year, Bedhead). Although serendipity, a word wholly

CD Review - Express and Company "Ontario"

Hailing from the thriving musical community of Peterborough Ontario, Express and Company is the band led by singer-songwriter Dylan Ireland, and their debut album, Ontario, is one of the most instantly lovable genre entries I’ve heard in years. Listing roots-rich influences that know a thing or two about rapturous

CD Review - Phosphorescent "Muchacho"

The cover art of Phosphorescent’s Muchacho depicts a grittily lit scene with two topless women on a motel room bed - one on her back and the other upright and beaming, sporting a cowboy hat. Matthew Houck (aka Phosphorescent) laughs in the foreground, much of his face off to

CD Review - The Lone Bellow "S/T"

The mention of new bands hailing from Brooklyn in 2013 is likely to conjure a variety of sounds and styles in your mind, but you’ll be forgiven for failing to place deeply earnest, majestically crafted “country-soul” at the top of the list. Fortunately, that’s exactly what you’ll