AltWeeklies Wire
Black Crowes vs. Maximnew
Let's get the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform working on the Black Crowes vs. Maxim case.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
03-12-2008 |
Music
The Raveonettes Charm Againnew
The Danish duo uses white noise and distortion with more aplomb than any group since the Jesus & Mary Chain, but there is always a girl-group naivete competing with the feedback.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
03-05-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Lust Lust Lust, The Raveonettes
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
Obama Talks Substance; Media Yawnsnew
It doesn't take long on the campaign trail before you realize that the same members of the press who raise concerns about a lack of substance swiftly grow bored with policy minutiae and prefer to dwell on the horse race.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-27-2008 |
Commentary
Hillary: Up Close and Impersonal?new
Whatever a flagging campaign looks like, it surely bears no resemblance to the wave of adulation Hillary Clinton stirred in San Antonio last week.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-20-2008 |
Politics
Diffident Divanew
Joan Carroll is San Antonio's reluctant vocal virtuoso.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joan Carroll
Buttercup's Strong Finishnew
When Buttercup plotted their three-EPs-in-a-year crusade to bring extreme productivity back to music, The Head Sits Upside Down on the Top of the Head was conceived as the weird finale.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-13-2008 |
Reviews
Absolutely No Ideanew
The avant-garde No Idea Festival's early editions focused primarily on Texas artists, but founder Chris Cogburn has broadened the geographic and cultural range of the festival considerably this year.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-13-2008 |
Concerts
Tags: No Idea Festival, concerts
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
The Problem With the Rock and Roll Hall of Famenew
Dave Clark Five over the Replacements? Color us unimpressed.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
01-02-2008 |
Music
The Hives: 'We Kick Ass and You Don't'new
It's been said that the purpose of all art is to express the inexpressible; to convey something that can't be easily defined. If that's the case, then the music of the Hives may not be art.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
12-05-2007 |
Reviews
The Alicia Keys Conundrum Continuesnew
Keys' air of confidence and preternaturally soulful rasp initially distracted us from the fact that her songwriting lagged far behind her performing ability.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alicia Keys, As I Am
Piracy Warsnew
New Congressional legislation stirs debate about illegal file-sharing on campus.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-21-2007 |
Music
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
The Rehabilitation of Joe McCarthynew
Evans' book is the latest in a revisionist school of thought that casts McCarthy, not the people he investigated, as the true victim.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-14-2007 |
Nonfiction
