These guys seemed to have slipped through the cracks for me, but I’ve found Lost In The Trees, I’ve heard the story behind their new LP, and I knew they were right up my alley. “New LP” may be a bit of a misnomer. All Alone In An Empty House is a beefed up re-release [...]

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It’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon. It’s hot outside, but it’s cool in here, and there’s no rain in the forecast for the next million days. Indian summer? Not quite yet, but pretty soon we might fall into that category. These types of afternoons are just beggin’ for you to find a porch, find some friends, [...]

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Words by Jim Label: Paper Bag Records/ Bella Union Writing album reviews is hard. I don’t envy music critics in the slightest and I’m more than all right letting the professionals really talk about the best albums out there. Even the albums I love the most and touch me in the deepest parts of my [...]

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Words by Christopher Carosi

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The National / You Were A Kindness

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[So I'm hitting you with something we haven't done before. A list and a how to all in one, put in a box and wrapped in a bow. I'll be giving you a little incite on what I do everyday, because I know you are dying to find out what that is! Everyone knows what [...]

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If it’s not one thing it’s another around here at Draw Us Lines . Let me clarify. Lately we’ve been featuring a lot of those Americana alt-country bands that we love oh so much. I’ve talked about this before. It seems as though it’s a summer of slide guitar and lazy vocals. Maybe it’s the [...]

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A Few Pints is a segment where we meet up with our favorite bands at a local bar, buy them a few beers, and hope they reveal the keys to longevity, wealth, fame, and the secrets of the universe…or we just bullshit with them for a while about their band, what they love, and what [...]

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Essay Test is a segment in which we assault a band with question in an essay test format. You remember that shit, right? We let the bands roam, wander, and trail off. We encourage run-on sentences and love fragments. We may or may not take points of for spelling mistakes. Here’s how Strand of Oaks [...]

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Delta Spirit / Salt in the Wound

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