In an interview with Tom Speed of All About Jazz, Alejandro Escovedo explains how his latest album, “Real Animal,” is a culmination of the sound his has been developing his entire career. “Real Animal” is very much an autobiographical album that takes listeners on a journey that is the life of the legendary songwriter. The album hits stores June 24. For the entire article, see the All About Jazz Web site.

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Calexico will release their sixth studio album this fall. Their latest release, titled “Carried to Dust,” is a follow-up to 2006’s “Garden Ruin.” The album is expected to be released Sept. 9.

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“Evil Urges” by My Morning Jacket

Four stars out of five

“Evil urges, baby,” squeals Jim James in the title track of his band’s fifth studio album. “They be part of the human way!” A slinky funk strut delivered in Prince-like falsetto that blows up into a proggy Southern-rock guitar duel, “Evil Urges” rallies you to “Dedicate your love to any woman or man/No racial boundary lines, no social subdivisions” and notes that “evil” is often in the ear of the beholder. -Will Hermes, Rolling Stone

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In an interview with the Dallas Observer, Old 97s frontman Rhett Miller discussed the band’s seventh studio album, “Blame It On Gravity,” the bands departure from the alt-country sound and get a little nostalgic. It has been four years the Dallas-based quartet released “Drag It Up” in 2004. According the band’s Web site, “Gravity“ finds the band “turning up the amps and returning to the satisfying crunch of its early records.”

“Bands go through a phase where they age, as people,” Miller says. “During ‘Drag It Up,’ all of us had gotten older and started families. That record was full of songs about mortality and aging. This record is more like a second childhood. More guitars, and they’re loud.”