Articles by Brent Hagerman

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  The New Drifts

  Nemesis

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2003

  PEI's the New Drifts share many similarities to the opposite coast's Radiogram, from the folky songwriting and trading lead male/female voc...

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  Tandy

  The Lowdown 1997-2002

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  The lowdown on Tandy is that you probably haven't heard of them, but you should rectify that immediately. This NYC-based band, with songwri...

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  Coral

  Coral

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  Your average variety of hard tropical coral takes 100 years to grow one inch. It took the Coral considerably less time to come to the atten...

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  Greyhound Tragedy

  Buffalo

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  The relentless prairie horizon has given rise to unyielding prairie rock in the form of Greyhound Tragedy. Former members of Jr. Gone Wild...

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  Adam Karch

  Crossroad Diaries

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  Crossroad Diaries is a middle of the road blues/rock effort that probably would have sounded fresh in, say, 1987. Coming across a bit like...

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  Karen Kosowski

  Optimist Party

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  Kosowski's third album is full of indie spirit, spite and vigour. A healthy amount of grrrl rock anger mixed with self-reliant ingenuity ha...

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  Lisa Loeb

  Hello Lisa

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  Supposedly, Lisa Loeb signed with Artemis to get creative control over her work. Surprisingly, however, there is nothing on Hello Lisa that...

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  Anne Loree

  Roar

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2003

  The second album from the Calgary-based writer of Jann Arden's massive hit "Insensitive" has a prominent social conscience. Fitting more wo...