Euclid Records
1. Rosanne Cash - The List
2. Jay Farrar/Ben Gibbard - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone
3. Swell Season - Strict Joy*
4. REM - Live At The Olympia
5. OST - Where The Wild Things Are
6. Tegan And Sara - Sainthood*
7. Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring
8. Michael Jackson - This Is It
9. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
10. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:
Apop Records
1 Lightning Bolt: Earthly Delights
2 Leonard Cohen: Live Songs
3 Atlas Sound: Logos
4 A Place To Bury Strangers: Exploding Head
5 Avarus: Toossassa
6 Nudge: As Good As Gone
7 BOMP! 2: Born in the Garage
8 Inca Ore: Silver Sea Surfer School
9 Joe Schwart
REVIEW BY KELSEY WHIPPLE
From the looks of things last night at the Gargoyle, Dearland seems like a nice place to be. Transformed by the beards and spirits of upstate New York's Elvis Perkins in Dearland, the midsized crowd experienced what that place sounds like, at the very least -- like the O Brother, Where Art You? soundtrack met Rufus Wainwright and the two got along swimmingly. There might just be hope yet in Elvis's jokes that the band's "dear land" is real.
(AA Bondy, last night at the
