Click above to check out Christian Hoard’s analysis of Kid Rock’s straight-up Rock N Roll Jesus (which Rock once described to Hoard as the equivalent of going to a bar and getting shit-faced, then discovering a gospel choir there), and tuneful indie-rock act Band of Horses, whose guitar-heavy, beautiful Cease to Begin helped them earn the title of Hot Band in the current Hot Issue.

Read the review for Kid Rock’s Rock N Roll Jesus here and Band of Horses’ Cease to Begin here.

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