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Bubba Hernandez Finds Life After Brave Combonew
Two decades of Brave Combo beat deconstruction--turning "Satisfaction" into a cha-cha or "Stairway to Heaven" into a swing tune (with Tiny Tim on lead vocals, no less)--provided Hernandez with an invaluable musical education, but it also made him hungry for a chance to explore his own ideas.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
08-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
What Laura Says Brings Together Baroque Pop and Rustic Folknew
What Laura Says is really the product of two different bands -- an offbeat pop duo called What Laura Says Thinks and Feels, and a dirty blues trio, called the Expatriates.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
07-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Madge vs. Miminew
Madonna and Mariah Carey take their battle to the record stores and dance floors.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
04-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tiempo Libre Goes Orchestralnew
It's not easy for them, but the members of Tiempo Libre are learning to control their energy.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
04-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dianne Reeves Makes Concept Albumnew
Dianne Reeves isn't generally thought of as a songwriter, but when it came to wrapping up her new album, she knew that the closing statement she envisioned had yet to be written. So she wrote it herself, with more than a little inspiration from her mom.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
03-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dianne Reeves, When You Know
Home School of Rocknew
Dad's discipline drives SA's premier tweener metal band.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
03-19-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: evolution, Young Generation
Flipping Their Whigsnew
Athens power trio builds a grassroots coalition of punks, metal-heads, and classic rockers.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
03-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Diffident Divanew
Joan Carroll is San Antonio's reluctant vocal virtuoso.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joan Carroll
Apollo Missionnew
Valerie Fernandez takes her soulful pipes to legendary Harlem theater and emerges with new ambition.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Valerie Fernandez
Taking the Sting Out of the '80s Biggest Rock Bandnew
The Police are to pop music what Sandy Koufax is to baseball, Rocky Marciano is to boxing, and Jim Brown is to football.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: police
Barrio Brigadenew
Bombasta teams with San Diego's B-Side Players for a night of one-world polyrhythms.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Steven Drozd: The Flaming Lips' Secret Weaponnew
Keith Richards once described the impact rock 'n' roll had on him as a teenager by saying that hearing it transformed life from black-and-white to Technicolor. You could make a similar case for the liberating effect Drozd had on the Lips.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
09-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Flaming Lips
Ken Slavin's 'Romance' Connectionnew
With help from producer Barry Brake, Slavin makes a sultry, late-night ode to love.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
08-22-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: I'll Take Romance, Ken Slavin
Joe Reyes' One-man Bandwagonnew
Reyes finds time between his multiple musical commitments to make an excellent solo EP.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
06-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Reyes
The Gourds: 'Creatures' Comfortsnew
The band tops itself again with an unusually revealing eighth album.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
05-23-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Gourds
