"I'm not exactly sure what you are saying here. Are you suggesting that fRoots are only interested in reviewing artists that have hype surrounding them?"

I don't know, you tell me?

But I'm pretty sure that if a big name artist produced a duffer of an album it would still have a very good chance of being in the main review section rather "and the rest". ..... and an independent, home produced CD (or one from a minor label)would have to be mightily, mightily impressive to make it into the "main" review section.

Are any of the albums you highlight above not on a record label?