 | "I have a feeling that in a few years we'll need backstage passes at the Ryman auditorium to get anywhere near him. He's just THAT good." —Chattanooga Free Press |
 | "An album of almost unprecedented punk-soul blues. Thick, humid, sweaty and sleazy…even the freaking high-hats have a bass tone to them on this album." —Nine Bullets |
 | JCBUS are not just another throwback group; they came to be during an age of war, envisioning an aggressive dance music with lyrics that dig deeper and hit harder than the usual "baby, baby" fare. |
 | "He has a true stage presence that could be fairly compared to that of Clint Eastwood on film. The dude's more dude than most other dudes you will ever meet." —Austinist |
 | "The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll." —Lester Bangs |
 | "All of 20, she's got the songwriting soul of someone twice her age and a voice to die for. Her appearance at the recent SXSW made us full-on believers." —Boudin Barndance |
 | "They might be lumped into the 'alt-country' and 'Americana' bag, but the truth of the matter is, the Bottle Rockets are really just an American rock and roll band of the first order." —Houston Press |
 | "The Dex Romweber duo specializes in music plucked with the soul and faith of a Sunday morning revival, a fluid mix of blues, surf-rock, rockabilly, proto-rock & roll and garage." - Riverfront Times |
 | "A precocious, stammering rock record that bridges sweet-water gospel folk with sweltering Southern rock." —CMJ Essentials |
 | Danish pedal steel player makes her debut with contributions from Mark Lanegan, Calexico, Jon Auer and Rachel Flotard. |
 | "While X has forsaken writing and recording new material these days, Cervenka continues to have plenty to say and true to form she isn't about to keep quiet." —All Music Guide |
 | “The Supersuckers make me want to fight and frug, but that damn Spaghetti makes me want to lilt and lager, I love that man, I wanna to steal all his pens. One guy talkin’ about rock ... Bonafide!” —Tim Rogers, You Am I |
 | "If sorrow, anguish and hard times are the foundation upon which country music was originally built, a case could be made that Flint, Michigan should be the new Nashville." —AOL SPINNER |
 | "Weaver remains a riveting lyricist and A-level student of the Tom Waits School of Gutter Bum Poetry." —Twin Cities Metromix |
 | "Lyrics that despair of politics, find true pain in true love, unhinge from terra firma, and gripe about the road are delivered with country plainness, glimmers of spirituality, plenty of rolled r's, and the sense that by singing reality you can make it mean something." —Robert Christgau, Village Voice |
 | On Imaginary Television, his fourth studio record for Bloodshot (and 20th overall in a 30+ year career), Graham Parker combines indelible hooks, penchant for the British blues-rock revival with a touch of the reggae and biting political commentary to produce an incredibly solid record. |
 | The Blacks burned bright for two albums (1998’s Dolly Horrorshow and 2000’s Just Like Home), then flamed out under their own volatility. In 2010, after a 10 year hiatus, the band reunited and returned with a digital-only EP, In Sickness and Health. |
 | "Detroit's Deadstring Brothers manage to serve up the real deal with this bluesy, ballsy, sweat-grease-and-blood-stained record that shakes with chainsaw-like guitar chords and shudders with thudding drumbeats." - Leeds Music Scene |
 | Beginning in the late 70s with her rockabilly punk band the Screamin' Sirens, Rosie Flores has been crafting a pioneering career in the roots underground. |
 | "Einhorn’s penchant for colorful self-invention marks him as a taleteller in the David Johansen mode—flaunting his dolled-up style and wise-guy sensibility while wrapping it in grandiloquent, shape-shifting sonics equally fit for the Bowery or Broadway." —Paste |
 | "The Cobras' secret weapon is frontwoman/human tornado Rachel Nagy, a mesmerizing mash up of Dusty Springfield, Neko Case, Chrissie Hynde and Ronnie Spector." —Amplifier |
 | "A rare breed of traditionalist, one who imbues his retro obsessions with such high energy and passions that his songs never feel like the museum pieces he's trying desperately to preserve." —AllMusic.com |
 | " ... more explicitly draws upon both the sounds and the moods of Latin American music, embracing the palpable joy and sorrow of the melodies as well as the sensuous grooves of the rhythms [and] demonstrates just how strong and intuitive a band Cordero have become." —All Music Guide |
 | "Comes close to being essential listening. In which a Nick Cave/Tom Waits acolyte travels to Pakistan, hangs out with the locals, and makes Sufi cabaret punk rock music ...A superb, disturbing slab of desperation and creativity." —Paste |
 | "Situating themselves at the crossroads where Johnny Thunders and Son House intersect, Charlie whipped up a bad voodoo vibe of heroin rock and midnight blues. These guys were one of the undiscovered giants of the late eighties." —Pete Buck, REM |
 | "[Some] songs have a gleaming hard edge ... and elsewhere they've created crisp little pop tunes with choruses that sound like forgotten hits from decades old rock radio stations." —NPR's Fresh Air |
