Primal Scream
Riot City Blues
Label: Columbia
In stores: June 27, 2006
British indie rock pioneers turned feel good old guys, Primal Scream have released what will most likely be regarded as a period in the mere elipsis that is their career post-1991.
Filled with bluesy fake punk with pseudo-British moxy, Riot City Blues is about as close […]

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The Vincent Black Shadow
Fears in the Water
Label: BoDog Music
In stores: July 11, 2006
The Vincent Black Shadow is not just the 1950s motorcycle often cited in the works of Hunter S. Thompson (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, etc.).
It’s also a female vocalist-driven Canadian retro-pop group with a new album, Fears in the Water.
With vocal stylings […]

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Dead Celebrity Status
Blood Music
In stores: June 27
Label: Bodog Music
The new album from Canadian hip-hop/rock group Dead Celebrity Status is a loaded deck featuring tight hooks, an already strong Project Wyze fanbase and laundry list of celeb collaborators.
Blood Music features Dave Navarro & Steve Perkins from Jane’s Addiction (”We Fall We Fall”), UK soul sensation Joss […]

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City Pages names us:
Minnesota Blog of the Day

Album reviews, album reviews, and more album reviews (and show highlights) await dear readers at Perfect Porridge.

Sweet!

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Jelloslave
Touch It
Label: Sugarfoot Music
There’s been some discussion lately about the avante-garde jazz scene in the Twin Cities, MN.
In addition to stellar local jazz groups including The Bad Plus, Happy Apple and Electropolis, there’s another group worth knowing about… Jelloslave.
The foursome’s cellos, tablas and drums make the most unique drones, squawks, moans and growls […]

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Quarter Acre Lifestyle
Quarter Acre Lifestyle
We had no idea the music scene in New Zealand was so hip.
That is, until we stumbled upon Quarter Acre Lifestyle, the biggest- little- New Zealand- band- based-in-Minneapolis of which you’ve never heard.
Founded in Auckland, New Zealand by brothers Aaron and Cameron Pollock, Quarter Acre Lifestyle’s new self-titled debut features […]

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Lisa Papineau
Night Moves
Label: Reincarnate Music
In stores: July 18, 2006
You know that girl in every group of guy friends that everyone seems to pass around like the town floozy? That’s Lisa Papineau.
After founding and disbanding PET, she gave it up to everyone who asked - from Air (10,000 Hertz, Talkie Walkie) to M83 (Before the […]

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Toby Lightman
Bird on a Wire
Label: Lava
In stores: July 25, 2006
“Kiss my ass, Jewel!”
After listening through Bird on a Wire, New York singer/songwriter Toby Lightman’s second album, that’s how we imagine the smack down, drag-out fight would start if she ever encountered the formerly crooked-toothed performer.
Bird on a Wire is a one-two Top 40 […]

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Paul Oakenfold
A Lively Mind
Label: Maverick
Paul Oakenfold’s second artist album, A Lively Mind, is like the Indiana Jones of electronica. It starts out with a brand new hat, the thrill of adventure and 80 percent chance you’ll get the girl. But post-adventure you’re dirty, tired and your hat is tattered and not something to wear out […]

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Remember in late 2005 when Sony put out CDs that contained malicious rootkit spyware that infiltrated their “paying” customers’ computers and left huge gaping holes for hackers?
Remember how the patch they issued actually opened up larger holes? And then remember that the final patch actually used stolen copyrighted code, no less?
Well, we’re sorry to […]

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