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   Wednesday, March 27, 2002  
Stirrings over at Nadine Towers. St Louis' finest have a lined up a few local shows roadtesting songs from a new album, tentatively titled "Strange Seasons," due in May. Guitarist Steve Rauner tells SLTtoday.com: "We're always categorized as Americana, but I think [first album] 'Lit Up' is more of a pop record, and our new record is more of a rock record. It's pretty massive." Same source lists the new band line-up with Merv Schrock (drums), Ryan Greis (keyboards) joining...

Lost Highway Records boss Luke Wood tells the New York Times, "A few radio programmers said to the record labels after the Grammys: `Don't get any ideas: we're not going to start playing Alison Krauss and Nickel Creek because of this'" - 'The Country Music Country Radio Ignores' puts the Oh Brother Grammy euphoria into perspective...

Theme for Today: The creeping influence of The Cure in '02 US Americana/Pop releases. Pete Yorn grew up trying to sound like Robert Smith and it shows in his bittersweet, brooding rock. Under cold blue stars, the latest from Josh Rouse wears it's Cure influence with pride (and Rouse encored with A Forest at Dingwalls last month). Now comes Wilco who use a 'borrow' of Oasis proportions to underpin Pot Kettle Black on the upcoming album. Still, Inbetween days always was a cracking little pop song...

Someone over at Americana-UK says all the right things about the latest Gingersol release. And just caught up with this from Feb: 'Variously evocative of David Bowie, Neil Young, Califone, Eels...The Worst You Can Do Is Harm is a stunning, unexpected intersection of lovely sentimentality, fucked-up strangeness, hopelessness, hope..' - Rockbites loves The Long Winters...

reallyrather is vaguely interested in news that the Radar Bros. bring their langurous (somnolent?) rootsiness to the Barfly May 9 in support of new album And the surrounding mountains on Chemikal Underground...

Guess the Mojo/Uncut 'Best of '02' list - hours of fun for all the family! (Not that they're hugely predictable and keen to be seen covering all the 'right' bases or anything.) So far:
Cornershop - Handcream for a generation
Wilco - Yankee Hotel whatever
The Streets - Original pirate material
Lambchop - Is a woman
Boards of Canada - Geoggaddi
(Subs bench: Gomez - In our gun / BeGoodTanyas - Blue Horse) tbc

Totally gratuitous: our Miranda...
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