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- Approaching the Altar of God in the Bluesy Name of Jesus: Amos Lee’s “Jesus” from Mission Bell
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- Three-Chord Lectionary: The Wailing Wall’s “Speak Not Its Name”/”Bones Become Rainbows” and Psalm 139
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- Year in Review Review: Setting Sun’s Fantasurreal
- Americana Psychedelia: Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3′s Northern Aggression
- Year in Review Reviews: Giant Sand’s Blurry Blue Mountain
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- Year in Review Reviews: Jeff Klein and My Jerusalem
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- Year in Review Reviews: Delta Spirit and the Romany Rye in Concert, St. Louis, June 2010
- Year in Review Reviews: The Choir’s Burning Like the Midnight Sun and De-Plumed
- Year in Review Reviews: Ryan Star’s 11:59
- Year in Review Reviews: Dearly Beloved’s Make It Bleed
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- A Gift to Shoppers: Target’s The Christmas Gig
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- Living Up to Symphonic Name: The City Harmonic’s Introducing the City Harmonic
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- Have a Quirky, Quirky Christmas: An Indiecater Christmas 2010
- It’s the Ache: James Apollo’s ’til Your Feet Bleed
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- Jaded Christmas with Jangle: Moshi Moshi Records Compilation and Slow Club
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- Wrapping Up 2010: Goonies Never Say Die’s No Words to Voice Our Hopes and Fears
- Wrapping Up 2010: Lauris Vidal’s Better Part EP
- The Dark Brooding Pop of Bryan Ferry’s Olympia May Make You Question Your Rock ‘n’ Roll Desire
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- The Cure Show Up in Manchester Via Hook, Mani, and Rourke: Freebass’ It’s a Beautiful Life
- Arranging Christmas for Good Listening: O Come All Ye Faithful (BEC) and The Essential Christmas Collection Compliations
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- As If Decomposure Was at the Mixing Desk: Sufjan Stevens’ The Age of Adz
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- Atmospheric Horizons: Wintersleep’s New Inheritors
- Band Rock in a New Wave Fashion: Two Hours Traffic’s Territory
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- Wandering a Horizon That Often Leads to Jim Morrison: Gabriel Mintz’s Volume One
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- Notebook Series Review: Ryan Delmore’s The Spirit, the Water, and the Blood
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- These United States, St. Louis’ Twangfest (Night Two) @ Blueberry Hill, 6/10/10
- Leaving Church and Going to Hear Hope: Pieta Brown with Bo Ramsey, Old Rock House, St. Louis, June 23, 2010
- Ray Wylie Hubbard, St. Louis’ Twangfest (Night Two) @ Blueberry Hill, 6/10/10
- Music for a Hospital Stay: Damien Jurado’s Saint Bartlett
- Blue Rodeo, St. Louis’ Twangfest (Night Two) @ Blueberry Hill, 6/10/10
- Reminiscences of a Part-time Delirious? Fan: Farewell Show: Live in London on CD/DVD/Blu Ray
- Magnolia Summer, St. Louis’ Twangfest (Night Two) @ Blueberry Hill, 6/10/10
- Add Electric Guitar for Passion: Megan Burtt’s It Ain’t Love
- Multi-instrumentalists Orchestrate a Beautiful Night: Freelance Whales at Off Broadway, St. Louis (6/8/10) along with Peter Wolf Crier
- Murky, Filmic Soundscapes: Seven Saturdays’ Seven Saturdays EP
- Nostalgia for Summertime: Krokus’ Hoodoo
- Meetings: Junip’s Rope and Summit EP
- Pocket T-Shirt Music: Wake Up Lucid plus Bridges & Blinking Lights
- Brooding Leads Up to 90′s Rock: Holy Fiction’s Hours From It
- A Prayer at the Right Time from the Right Voice: Les Copeland’s Don’t Let the Devil In
- Singing and Praying In and Out of Tune with Common Prayer on There is a Mountain
- Listening to Hillsong Live and Wondering About “Indie Churches” Doing Rock ‘n’ Worship
- New Soul Classic Mash-Ups: V.V. Brown and the Generationals
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- Mraz-style Singer/Songwriter: Nick Driver’s Warm is Your Color
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- “Time Card” by Benjamin C. Squires
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- Industrial Tour Needs to Kick Like a Sleep Twitch:Editors Tour to Support In This Light and On This Evening
- American Band Rock Filed Near Bruce Springsteen:Mike Dunn & the Kings of New England, Sundowner
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- The Professor and the Substitute Teacher: Alex Chilton and Grant Hart at the Turner Hall Ballroom, Milwaukee, WI , December 7, 2008
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- Notebook Series Review: Siberian’s With Me Should Be With You Even They Are No Longer With Us
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- Notebook Series Review: Union Pulse on Track Opening for Blue Mountain, Shank Hall, Milwaukee, WI, May 6, 2008
- Notebook Series Review: To the Band That Was Wonderful – Overhang’s Another Hole for You to Crawl Into
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- Notebook Series Review: Andy Friedman & the Other Failures at Shank Hall, Milwaukee, WI, May 6, 2008
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