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2007 Stories by Roy Kasten

• Red Heart the Ticker

  published February 7, 2007

  Vermont's best-known indie rocker, the self-identified socialist Bernie Sanders, recently won a U.S. senate seat on a platform not unlike one... More >>

• The Autumn Defense

  published February 7, 2007

  Olivia Newton John once asked, "Have you ever been mellow?" The Autumn Defense's answer? "24/7." Led by Wilco bassist John Stirratt and... More >>

• Local Motion: Frederick's Music Lounge Anniversary Show

  published January 31, 2007

  Just on the other side of Dan Lastick's scampering yelp (think Jonathan Richman having a go at primal-scream therapy) and a jittery rhythm section... More >>

• Ron Sexsmith

  published January 24, 2007

  Like Paul McCartney without the existential cluelessness, Ron Sexsmith is a low-key melody-maker capable of small, shining stays against the chaos... More >>

• Cross Canadian Ragweed

  published January 24, 2007

  Dumb down, tighten up and Oklahoma-fy the Drive-By Truckers, and you have Cross Canadian Ragweed — or so say cynics who forget that... More >>

• R.I.P. Mississippi Nights

  published January 24, 2007

  Quotes compiled by Roy Kasten and Annie Zaleski. "Most of my memories of Mississippi Nights were from when I was a kid, going... More >>

• Salt of the Earth

  published January 17, 2007

  Bands that expend all of their energy living up (or down) to their name — i.e. Alien Sex Fiend, Genitorturers and Dread Zeppelin — are... More >>

• Scroat Belly

  published January 10, 2007

  Of all the mid-'90s twangcore thrashers — Jason and Scorchers, Pumpskully, the Supersuckers — Scroat Belly was likely the least... More >>

• Heartless Bastards

  published January 10, 2007

  Though they make their home on heavy-roots label Fat Possum, the Heartless Bastards follow the same end-run around the blues as PJ Harvey,... More >>

• The Gospel According to Gnarls

  published January 10, 2007

  St. John of the Cross, a sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, described something called "the dark night of the soul," that necessary descent on... More >>

• The Incurables

  published January 3, 2007

  "Drum loops are soulless," opines Jimmy Griffin in a note attached to six demos representing the oeuvre (so far) of his new band, The... More >>