Icky Thump (Warner Brothers). Review by Jen Cray.

II (K-RAA-K). Review by Aaron Shaul.

It could’ve been called the Bounce Your Feet Say Yeah tour, for that’s what the packed house did from the very moment Clap Your Hands Say Yeah took to the Club@Firestone’s stage. Jen Cray was in the midst of it all.

Wild and Wicked (AIM Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Leave the Light On (Mighty Albert/Signature Sounds). Review by Sean Slone.

Diamond Days (Telarc). Review by Sean Slone.

Cold War Kids , riding a tsunami swell of buzz off of their debut album Robbers & Cowards, was a sure-to-sell-out event (and it did) that no self respecting music fan in Orlando- esspecially Jen Cray - would have been absent from.

Lucinda Williams may very well be one of the great American songwriters, but – as Jen Cray discovered – being an amazing artist doesn’t always promise an awe-inspiring live show.

Because Of The Times (RCA). Review by Jen Cray.

Cotton Teeth (Equal Vision). Review by Jen Cray.

The last we saw Dr. Dog , they were opening for The Raconteurs. Jen Cray couldn’t resist seeing how their inspired 30-minute set translated to a full set on a stage of their own.

Dull Lights (Constellation). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Singer songwriter Eleni Mandell talks with Chris Catania about her new record, recording with Nels Cline and making out to Tom Waits.

Plays Polmo Polpo (Constellation). Review by Aaron Shaul.

The Tallest Man on Earth (Gravitation). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Appropriately booked at a college campus, Seattle’s shoegazers Death Cab For Cutie rolled into Orlando for a crowded show at the UCF Arena. Jen Cray found their inimate sounds rather impersonal inside the too big space.

At first glance, maybe it seems a little shocking that Clinton Heylin has temporarily abandoned the rock world to write about filmmaker Orson Welles, but after reading this book, Matthew Moyer wonders what took him so bloody long.

For his first show at home, in Gainesville, in 13 years Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers brought along The Strokes and- unannounced- special guest Stevie Nicks. Jen Cray couldn’t believe her luck at being able to attend and photograph the event.

Modern Times (Columbia). Review by James Mann.

Magpie (Fiction). Review by Sean Slone.