Cat Power “You Are Free” (Matador Records) On the opening piano ballad “I Don’t Blame You,” Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power, sings, “You were swinging your guitar around/Cuz they wanted to hear that sound/But you didn’t want to play.” She…
Pretty Girls Make Graves “The New Romance” (Matador Records) With their second full length release “The New Romance” Seattle, Washington’s Pretty Girls Make Graves have not only made a serious impact on the world of independent rock, but within the…
Mission of Burma “ONoffON” (Matador Records) First: how about a little history on Mission of Burma. Perhaps one of the most heralded and influential groups in the history of rock music, Mission of Burma was the epitome of what underground…