Sinead O’Connor
Collaborations
Available: June 21, 2005
Label: Capitol
Rating: 2/5
This album is a collection of the bald-headed, Pope-photo-ripping, Irish pop tart’s collaborations from the last 20 years – an exercise to prove that she was really more than a flash in the pan with “Nothing Compares to U” and “Mandinka.”

The album is a must-buy for Sinead lovers, but […]

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Silversun Pickups
Pikul EP
Available: July 26, 2005
Label: Dangerbird Records
Rating: 4/5
Silversun Pickups are part of The Ship Collective in LA (an incestuous artist group much like Saddle Creek in Omaha where everyone plays on each other’s albums and roles are blurred). “Pikul” is their debut EP, and it’s pronounced pie-kull, although pickle is funnier. Billed as L.A.’s […]

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Death Cab For Cutie
Plans
Available: August 30, 2005
Label: Atlantic Records
Yesterday marked Seattle-based Death Cab for Cutie’s sixth full-length album release and major label debut, “Plans,” on Atlantic Records.
The follow-up to 2003’s much praised Transatlanticism, Plans is sure to please diehard fans and the label is hoping it will attract the masses with its “delectable pop […]

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Jimmy Webb
Twilight of the Renegades
Available: August 16, 2005)
Label: Sanctuary
Rating: 0/5
I’m pretty sure we have no business reviewing anything from Jimmy Webb, BUT we received not one but two (2!) advance copies of his new album. Therefore, we feel guilty and will make a fair attempt. But wait. We don’t know anything about him and couldn’t […]

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Dimension Mix
Various Artists
Available: August 23, 2005
Label: Eenie Meenie Records
Rating: 5/5
Starting in the 1960s, Dimension 5 Records for Children released some of the most groundbreaking works in the field of educational and electronic recordings ever heard and captured on vinyl. The brainchild of electronic music pioneer Bruce Haack and educational genius Esther Nelson, Dimension 5 explored […]

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The Like
Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking
Available: September 13, 2005
Label: Geffen Records
Rating: 3/5
This ain’t your typical chick rock band (we think). With a style alternating between the Cranberries on Prozac and Joan Jett on the rag, The Like have finally graduated high school, signed to a real record label with a real producer and are […]

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Eels
Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Available: April 26, 2005
Label: Vagrant Records
Rating: 5/5
Mark Oliver Everett is your typical gifted musician. Became interested in rock through his big sister’s record collection at a young age, started playing drums and piano at age six, was expelled from school and eventually taught himself how to play guitar. Since several of […]

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The White Stripes
Orpheum Theater, Minneapolis, MN
August 26, 2005
I first saw The White Stripes at the historic First Avenue club in the heart of downtown Minneapolis on July 13, 2002, and a second time only a year later on July 3, 2003 in the unfortunate Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul.
Since then, the Detroit duo […]

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