Cut the Cake & Other Hits, the umpteenth Average White Band compilation, is part of Rhino's budget-line Flashback series of discs, so it contains only ten tracks and provides a decent -- if by no means definitive -- overview of the band's career. That it uses a live version of the band's biggest hit -- "Pick Up the Pieces," recorded at Montreux -- automatically puts it out of the running as an ideal introduction, and quite a few significant singles and album cuts are left off as well. It doe...   [ read more ]

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The Dirtbombs are an established band to say the least -- they've poured years of hard work into their Detroit rock resonance. It isn't just their sound that sets them apart -- having two drummers and cooler-than-your-average-frontman Mick Collins is hardly average. "Dangerous Magical Noise" is hardly an average album either. Imagine the industrial heart of the Motor City as a pulsating noise with get-up-and-go party sounds, a bluesy attitude, and a frontman who clearly loves soul and Motown.

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