Despite the occasional political prattle that earned this Marietta, Ga. duo the well-deserved “Indignant Girls” tag, the Indigo Girls continue to produce genuinely compelling music, complete with an intellectual spine. After expanding the group dynamics on the electric guitar-laden Swamp Ophelia, troubadours Amy Ray and Emily Sailers return on Shaming of the Sun with an [...]

Last year’s debut album by the Rock*a*teens was a veritable blast of supernatural radio, AM-style. The Georgia band (featuring members of such acts as DQE, Dirt, Opal Foxx Quartet and the Jody Grind) managed to convincingly conjure up the spirit of the marvelous mono days of Phil Spector’s do-wop “Wall of Sound” via the voodoo [...]