Soundcheck Podcast
A weekly review of the best new music from the staff of The Hartford Courant. Your hosts are Eric R. Danton, Courant Rock Critic, and Stephen Busemeyer, a Courant editor and CD reviewer. Guest commentary is brought to you by Eric Gershon, a Courant business reporter who has written about music for the Boston Phoenix and other publications; Babe Zero, a former Courant photo editor; Elizabeth Zuhl, a graphic designer at The Courant, and Regine Labossiere, a writer at The Courant who has unprintable accents in her name.Podcasts
Craig Finn: Clear Heart Full Eyes
Published: Feb. 10, 2012, 3:02 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 45 seconds
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Kathleen Edwards: Voyageur
Published: Jan. 31, 2012, 2:25 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 1 second
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Dex Romweber Duo: Is That You In The Blue?
Published: Aug. 10, 2011, 4:30 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 1 second
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Bon Iver: Bon Iver
Published: Aug. 3, 2011, 2:41 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 31 seconds
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Iceage: New Brigade
Published: June 23, 2011, 3:08 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 8 seconds
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The Antlers: Burst Apart
Published: June 14, 2011, 2:24 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 31 seconds
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Amanda Shires: Carrying Lightning
Published: June 1, 2011, 3:13 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 1 second
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Fleet Foxes -- Helplessness Blues
Published: May 27, 2011, 3:17 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 31 seconds
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TV On The Radio: Nine Types Of Light
Published: May 16, 2011, 2:13 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 30 seconds
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Wye Oak: Civilian
Published: April 28, 2011, 3:03 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 53 seconds
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Destroyer: Kaputt
Published: March 29, 2011, 1:43 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 12 seconds
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Roky Erickson with Okkervil River: True Love Cast Out All Evil
Published: March 14, 2011, 2:37 a.m.Duration: N/A
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The Decemberists: The King Is Dead
Published: March 7, 2011, 3:31 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes
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The Top 10 Records of 2010
Published: Dec. 20, 2010, 3:20 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 22 seconds
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Superchunk: Majesty Shredding
Published: Dec. 15, 2010, 4:26 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 59 seconds
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Robyn: Body Talk -- The best in dance pop?
Published: Dec. 6, 2010, 4:10 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds
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Cee Lo Green: F**k You -- The best song of 2010?
Published: Nov. 30, 2010, 3:41 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds
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OFF! Punk rock returns!
Published: Nov. 22, 2010, 3:36 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 25 seconds
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Warpaint: The Fool
Published: Nov. 15, 2010, 3:47 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 20 seconds
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Grinderman: Grinderman 2 -- A whole lot of rock.
Published: Nov. 10, 2010, 4:03 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 14 seconds
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Damien Jurado and Richard Swift: Two Dudes, Two Records
Published: Sept. 26, 2010, 9:51 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 58 seconds
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Best Coast: Crazy For You, But Are We Crazy About This Record?
Published: Sept. 20, 2010, 2:06 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 26 seconds
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Mavis Staples: You Are Not Alone
Published: Sept. 14, 2010, 2:57 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 24 seconds
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Villagers: Becoming A Jackal
Published: June 8, 2010, 1:08 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes
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Band of Horses: Infinite Arms
Published: June 1, 2010, 1:36 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 45 seconds
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The National: High Violet
Published: May 24, 2010, 2:24 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 43 seconds
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Das Racist: Shut Up, Dude. Whut?
Published: April 29, 2010, 1:19 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 48 seconds
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MGMT: Congratulations, You've Made A Lousy Record
Published: April 23, 2010, 2 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes
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Ted Leo And The Pharmacists: Brutalist Bricks
Published: April 19, 2010, 3:35 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes
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Frightened Rabbit: Yet Another Superb Record. Thanks, 2010!
Published: April 6, 2010, 2:29 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 30 seconds
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Punk blues at its best, whatever that is
Published: March 30, 2010, 2:53 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds
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Norah Jones: S'Norah No More
Published: March 15, 2010, 12:41 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 8 seconds
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Joanna Newsom: A Whole Lot Of Newsom
Published: March 8, 2010, 2:20 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 30 seconds
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Shearwater: Most Epic Album Ever?
Published: Feb. 23, 2010, 11 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 50 seconds
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Charlotte Gainsbourg: Not bad for a Beck record
Published: Feb. 19, 2010, 4:03 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 30 seconds
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Beach House: Teen Dream
Published: Feb. 8, 2010, 11:24 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 6 seconds
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Vampire Weekend: Contra
Published: Feb. 1, 2010, 2:30 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 19 seconds
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Rihanna: Good Girl Or Bad?
Published: Jan. 26, 2010, 6:59 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 45 seconds
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Lady Gaga: Huge.
Published: Jan. 15, 2010, 11:59 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 25 seconds
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Joe Pernice: A record, and a book!
Published: Oct. 4, 2009, 9:48 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 29 seconds
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Amanda Blank -- We love you too!
Published: Sept. 20, 2009, 10:28 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds
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Dirty Projectors: A new direction in pop music?
Published: July 19, 2009, 11:52 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 29 seconds
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Black Eyed Peas: (We Wish It Were) The E.N.D.
Published: July 6, 2009, 2:06 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 29 seconds
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Goodbye, Michael Jackson
Published: June 28, 2009, 3:24 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 19 seconds
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Richard Swift: The Atlantic Oceam
Published: June 22, 2009, 2:39 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 12 seconds
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Sonic Youth: Eternal Art Rock
Published: June 12, 2009, 3:47 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 33 seconds
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Beirut / Realpeople
Published: April 3, 2009, 1:44 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds
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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Published: March 12, 2009, 3:51 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 12 seconds
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Franz Ferdinand: Tonight, or the 1970s, or the '80s, or the '60's ...
Published: Feb. 12, 2009, 4:32 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 5 seconds
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Bruce Springsteen: Mortal, or Bob Dylan?
Published: Feb. 5, 2009, 5:42 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 48 seconds
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Kanye West: 808s and 1959s
Published: Jan. 15, 2009, 6:01 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 59 seconds
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Britney Spears, in under a minute
Published: Jan. 6, 2009, 4:02 a.m.Duration: 54 seconds
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Ryan Adams: Cardinology
Published: Nov. 25, 2008, 1 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 52 seconds
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The Cool Kids: Bake Sale
Published: Nov. 18, 2008, 3:48 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 25 seconds
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A Conversation With Winterpills
Published: Oct. 23, 2008, 2:18 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 19 seconds
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Girl Talk: Feed The Animals
Published: Oct. 19, 2008, 10:36 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 38 seconds
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Metallica: Death Magnetic
Published: Oct. 7, 2008, 1:51 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds
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Miley Cyrus: Breakout -- Marketing, or music?
Published: Sept. 25, 2008, 2:33 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 21 seconds
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Calexico: Carried To Dust
Published: Sept. 9, 2008, 2:22 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 40 seconds
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The Hold Steady: Stay Positive
Published: July 10, 2008, 3:01 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 15 seconds
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N*E*R*D: Seeing Sounds
Published: June 24, 2008, 11:50 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 31 seconds
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Nine Inch Nails: Free!
Published: June 15, 2008, 11:40 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 37 seconds
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Mates Of State: Re-Arrange Us
Published: May 15, 2008, 4:38 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 37 seconds
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The Roots: Rising Down
Published: May 6, 2008, 4:33 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds
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Nick Lowe: The Jesus of Cool at a Certain Age
Published: April 29, 2008, 4:24 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 45 seconds
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The Black Keys: Attack And Release
Published: April 15, 2008, 3:50 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 36 seconds
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REM: Accelerate
Published: April 8, 2008, 4:11 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 27 seconds
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Jazz: Past, Present and Future
Published: March 4, 2008, 5:20 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 7 seconds
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Saint Bernadette
Published: Feb. 25, 2008, 11:57 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 53 seconds
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Published: Feb. 12, 2008, 5:31 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes
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Gogol Bordello: Super Taranta!
Published: Aug. 1, 2007, 8:40 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds
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John Vanderslice: Emerald City
Published: July 26, 2007, 12:20 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 42 seconds
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Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Published: July 18, 2007, 8:16 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 1 second
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The White Stripes: Icky Thump
Published: July 12, 2007, 3:57 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 13 seconds
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The Beastie Boys: The Mix-Up
Published: June 27, 2007, 8:48 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 53 seconds
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The Summer of Love
Published: June 20, 2007, 10:47 p.m.Duration: 35 minutes 59 seconds
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The Last Town Chorus
Published: April 27, 2007, 3:07 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 19 seconds
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Fountains Of Wayne
Published: April 19, 2007, 4:25 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 44 seconds
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LCD Soundsystem
Published: March 21, 2007, 3:57 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 6 seconds
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The Arcade Fire
Published: March 8, 2007, 5:13 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 37 seconds
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