Out Of The Box Cd Of The Week With Paul Shugrue

This Hampton Roads band has just released Inheritance, their major label debut of beautifully layered acoustic chamber pop.

This country rock band's first album is ten years has little to do with country or rock. Like their name implies, they have a unique style of music that has to be heard to be believed.

Electric is the folk rock pioneer's 31st solo album skillfully balancing his english roots with Americana.

Wonderful Glorious is the tenth album from songwriter and vocalist Mark Oliver Everett and his band and delivers an uplifting, rocking reason for living.

Fiction Family Reunion is the second album by former members of Switchfoot and Nickelcreek and is much more charismatic than their first.

La Costa Perdida is the first album in nine years and Marks the thirtieth anniversary of the pioneering college rock band and on it they continue to combine wacky lyrics with top notch musicianship.

Manifestra is a bold and challenging combination of original arrangements and politcally charged lyrics.

Few bands are as perfect for the Orchestral setting as Devotchka and this impeccable live album sets a new standard for bridging classical and rock music.

On the wagon but back on the horse, Psychedelic Pill weaves more great electric guitar jams that Neil and Crazy Horse are so well known for.

To say the Texas blues guitarist's major label debut is explosive, is an understatement. It detonates.

Wreck and Ruin is a live from the back porch kind of album of duets that weds their stringband style with two voices that are made for each other.

Glad All Over is their first album in seven years and picks up where the band left off before Jakob Dylan's two solo albums.

The Sugaring Season is the first album in six years from this unique vocalist and songwriter.

Babel is one of the most anticipated albums of the year after the sleeper success of their debut in 2009. The new album builds on that sound.

Mirage Rock has a much more acoustic vibe than previous albums and is produced by the legendary Glyn Johns.

The Carpenter is the follow up to their break through album and they rely on the same qualities that made that album work; earnestness and attention to musical detail.

Sun is a stunning evolution of her sound, revealing how much has happened to her musically and personlly in the six years since her last album of original songs.

The Fifth album by this Seattle Indie band combines anthemic rockers with slow, hypnotising musicianship for their most polished album to date.

Just Tell Me That You Want Me, a Tribute to Fleetwood Mac uses mostly newer bands to represent Fleetwood Mac's influence over modern music.

We Walk the Line a Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash is a live tribute album to the artist who would have turned eighty this year.