Although he'd been a fixture on the East Coast folk circuit for several years, Arlo Guthrie did not release this debut album until mid-1967. A majority of the attention directed at Alice's Restaurant focuses on the epic 18-plus-minute title track, which sprawled over the entire A-side of the long-player. However, it is the other half-dozen Guthrie compositions that provide an insight into his uniformly outstanding -- yet astoundingly overlooked -- early sides on Warner Bros.. Although arguab...   [ read more ]

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Combining the aesthetics of powerpop, grunge, and hard rock, Los Angeles' Arlo has spawned a big album with big hooks, big harmonies, and an even bigger guitar attack that should endear them to the vast American teenage wasteland. Classic rock influences abound, especially when the band barely stops short of cobbling the all-too-familiar octave riff of the Knack's seminal {new wave} anthem My Sharona in Runaround. Cuts such as Culture, Little American, and Working Title all explode with the most unflappabl...   [ read more ]

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Arlo is the kind of band that can get an entire bar screaming and drinking along to their old-fashioned and never self-conscious dirty rock. They play music that can drive with enough force to knock you out, though they seem way too busy hanging out to ever bother with cranking it up that hard. With influences that seem to range from the Rolling Stones to today's {alt-country}, Arlo create mid-paced, feel-good tunes with pop sensibilities and plenty of carefree and in-your-face attitude. Singers Nate Greel...   [ read more ]

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