Cheap Time
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Record numero dos from the Nashville, Tennessee trio known as Cheap Time: guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Jeffrey Novak, bassist Stephen Braren and...

A friend of mine once described how she couldn’t listen to music by artists who had “a lazy mouth” — singers who slurred words or generally let conson...

Tennessee threesome Cheap Time begin their second album sounding like a cross between The Rolling Stones and T-Rex, which is just the start of anglo-r...

Improved production valuesaside, all the songs on the new album are grabbers and the writing has maturedgreatly. The music itself has shifted time per...

Two years ago, Nashville?s Cheap Time released a debut full-length as impressive, if not as widely noticed, as other recent Tennessee punks Jay Reatar...

Buy at iTunesCheap Time's power pop artistry has grown in leaps and bounds over the course of three years. From releasing their first seven-inch to th...

Singer-guitarist Jeffrey Novak pulls off a neat stunt on the second Cheap Time album, bringing fresh life to the most timeworn garage-band conventions...

You may have missed it in the wave of like-sounding garage rock records released around the same time, but Cheap Time's full-length self-titled debut ...

What happens when a garage punk goes garage... something else Cheap Time's self-titled debut was loud and fast like an ADD-riddled Buzzcocks. It wasn...

It's a little too easy to compare Jeffrey Novak's musical arc to Jay Reatard's. Both are (or, sadly, in the case of Reatard, were) Tennesee-based gara...