Sometimes all it takes is a spin or two to realize that you're listening to an album that's going to wear well. The music on "Sunday Driver" has that kind of feel to it, a smart, mostly understated roots rock sound that isn't likely to ever become dated...

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If singer-songwriter Lu Bango isn't already accustomed to seeing his music likened to that of Elvis Costello or Freedy Johnston, he will be. "The Little Bang Theory" is that good...

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Judging by her impressive solo debut, "My Heart, You Break It, You Buy It," singer-songwriter Dana Cerick is no stranger to anguish either. Just as Adams sometimes evokes images of Dylan or Steve Earle, Cerick occasionally brings to mind Chrissie Hynde, especially on the passionate....

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More consistently appealing is the self-titled five-song CD recently released by the local folk-rock quintet Jonasay...

Sweet acoustic-tinged rock out of DC, Jonasay is a five-man band along the lines of Tom Petty, Matthew Sweet, and Soul Asylum...

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At a time when many major-label bands are trying to pad one or two catchy songs into an album, Yuma House is blessed with a power-pop bounty...

With three years of performing live shows behind them, the timing seems right for the debut full-length from Yuma House...

Rundown On The Band: This marks Yuma House's second demo since forming back in July of 1994, and what a fine noisy, pop nugget it is!...

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Spin magazine and GeoCities Web site recently announced the winners of their "1997 Unsigned Band Contest."...Mike Shupp placed second in the rock category...

There's nothing better than a songwriter with a sense of melody and the intuition for a killer hook...

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"This well traveled roadhog combines a gift for conversational directness in lyrics with versatile guitar...

Bill Parsons' debut album, Unskilled Labor, is as varied as his musical background...