Today is the release date of the new Rogue Wave album, “Decended Like Vultures.” Here is what Stylus Magazine has to say about the album.

Descended Like Vultures snuggles down between Wolf Parade’s Apologies To The Queen Mary and Modest Mouse’s 2004 release, Good News For People Who Like Bad News as a competent, half-slapped together, half-methodic slice of evolved indie-rock. Not as rural and weathered as the former, not as pushy a grab-bag as the latter (though all three albums do have mystifying, undergraduate titles).

Stylus Magazine also has a review of the fantastic new My Morning Jacket album, “Z.” I saw Elizabethtown the other night, and the My Morning Jacket performance of “Freebird” during the movie was jaw-dropping.

This was rock as I understood it from my childhood, stripped of boredom and as serious as you wanted it to be. Usually albums that take up a full seventy-plus minutes are frustrating (so much fat to trim!), but this time all that excess made sense.

My Morning Jacket along with Kathleen Edwards play The Annex right here in Madison on Friday, October 28th. Tickets are still available and are only $16, which is an amazing deal for these two great live acts.