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CD: Jeanne (Doucet) Currie, Serrons-nous la main Release date: 2008 Label: Deep Sound Productions Danceable Franco-Country Songs Honour Legends and Friends of Acadie In the nineteenth century, when the first boatload of displaced Acadians returned to Nova Scotia, it was to a rocky beach hemmed in by a wild forest. After years of petitioning the… Read more »

My usual contribution to this space was missing last week because I was recovering from cataract surgery. I’ll pause here for a second to allow readers to gasp, ?Oh, no, how could it be in someone so young?? It’s our old friend and fallback explanation for almost anything: heredity. As I write this on December… Read more »

?When it comes to the possible / I’m a passable machine.? But just barely. Many days, I move around so awkwardly, bumping into tables and chairs. I lurch from mistake to mistake. And my voice. My voice is scratchy, out of tune, a punctured accordion hidden in the middle of an orchestra, mostly just suitable… Read more »

Released: October 27, 2008 Label: Fiction Records Tracks: 4 Rating: 9 Formed in Chiswick (London, England), this band formerly known as Fear of Flying has crossed the Atlantic with Death, a music-packed single EP that is sure to grip its listeners and either completely change their perspective on music or bring them back to a… Read more »

2009 AUSU Handbook/Planners The 2009 AUSU planner pre-order form is up! You’ll find the order form on the AUSU home page, but please note, the planner will only be sent out when it arrives in our office in December. Anyone who pre-orders will be in the first batch of planners mailed out. If you order… Read more »

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CD: The Iguanas, If You Should Ever Fall On Hard Times Release date: 2008 Label: Yep Roc Records A Remnant of the New Orleans Diaspora Returns Home and Picks up the Thread You’re a warm sun inside of me. You glow, you glow, you burn softly and you grow. You’re a warm sun inside of… Read more »

I can blow a smoke ring and bake a Boston cream pie. I can write a sonnet, if it doesn’t have to be a good one. I can’t fix a toaster, I can’t skate backwards. I can play foosball, and fingerpick ?House of the Rising Sun.? I’ve never been good at geometry. Because I’ve paid… Read more »

Released: October 7, 2008 Label: Geffen Tracks: 13 Rating: 9 ?we’re all okay until the day we’re not? (from ?Audience of One?). Simple, succinct, and although just as clever and thoughtful as any Rise Against lyric ever written, this is a somewhat melancholy, retrospective album theme for the band. Appeal to Reason is not the… Read more »