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Mar
’cause the eyes of the ranger are upon you
(or: march 9 — a thumbnail sketch)
posted at 11:24 pm by brandon in tuesdays in the record store with brandon
Last week was full of fabulosity. This week: decidedly less so. Be careful out there in record store land this week:
- That wacky, brilliant troubadour Josh Rouse takes another dramatic left turn with his bilingual latest, El Turista
.
- The magnificent Patty Larkin celebrates a quarter-century as a top-flight recording artist with her latest album, 25
, which features exactly that many tracks and exactly that many guest stars — among them: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Suzanne Vega, Janis Ian, and the divine Shawn Colvin — and I’m bringing her to Brandon’s Buzz Radio later this month to talk about it.
- Country star Gary Allan returns with his latest effort,
Get Off on the Pain.
- With Gnarls Barkley on an indefinite hiatus, supermaverick producer/artist Danger Mouse has teamed up with James Mercer (frontman for The Shins) to create Broken Bells, and their
hotly-anticipated self-titled debutarrives this week.
- I was crazy about their propulsively brilliant last record — 2007’s underrated Baby 81 — and now, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club follows up with their latest, Beat the Devil’s Tattoo
.
- Ultra-irritating cartoon band Gorillaz are up with their latest,
Plastic Beach.
- If you have yet to take a chance on Train‘s magnificent fifth album,
Save Me, San Francisco, it’s on sale for the irresistible price of $7.99 at both Best Buy and Amazon.com through Sunday. So for God’s sake: forgo one grande latte this week and buy. this. album!
- Finally: don’t laugh, but season seven — and the first one which featured my beloved Nia Peeples — of my old TV favorite
Walker, Texas Rangerarrives on DVD this week, as does the incredible Mo’Nique and her Academy Award-winning performance in Precious
.
March 11th, 2010 at 11:54 am
I loved that BRMC record, too, but I haven’t spun their latest one yet. I really dig the Broken Bells album and Gary Allan’s isn’t bad either.