This week's Homespun review is on John Maxfield's Hullabalooga. Due to a copyflow error, this review didn't run in print. (It will next week.) However, it's now online -- and Christian Schaeffer has this to say:Airy, open piano chords, brushed drums and organ accents usher in John
Maxfield's latest record with the cocktail-jazz instrumental "Theme to Hullabalooga,"
a sly hint that the album may be more ambitious than most of its
rock/pop contemporaries. In a way, it is different; the album relie
Every Monday (Tuesday this week -- sorry, Warped Tour), 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:
Euclid Records
1. SON VOLT: American Central Dust
2. WILCO: Wilco (The Album)*
3. LEVON HELM: Electric Dirt
4. FIERY FURNACES: I'm Going Away
5. MATTHEW SWEET/SUSANNA HOFFS: Under the Covers, Vol. 2
6. REGINA SPEKTOR: Far
7. DIRTY PROJEC