via www.darwilliams.comDar Williams isn't exactly a household name ... yet. All that might be about to change, as she's recently tapped Grammy nominated producer Brad Wood (think Liz Phair, Pete Yorn, and Ben Lee) and Greg Leisz (who's played with Wilco and Robert Plant) to help write her latest album, Promised Land. The results are stunning. Williams' original songs are stripped down to raw emotion, sans filler, and her remake of "Midnight Radio" from the 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch sen
RotagillaSeason For Leavin' (self-released)You'd think it was 1970 again, for Chrissakes, what with the way the guys of Rotagilla let out their inner Led Zep. Granted, there's no hint of a Robert Plant or Jimmy Page lurking among this lot. However, in recycling the old school power trio format and letting loose their ragged riffing and rambunctious exhortations, these guys expel a lot of volume. And what they may lack in technical prowess, they more than make up for in sheer exuberance.
