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Gauchiste's mix of metal and electronics is free to possibilitynew
"I know a lot of metal guys who would hear the Gauchiste and go, 'So, is this a soundtrack? Are these sound effects you guys made?'"
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
01-18-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gauchiste
Pictureplane's Geographic Isolation Hasn't Limited His Dance Musicnew
"The last record was more about time and space and outer space and galactic alignment than human consciousness. This one was more about the physicality of the world and sexuality."
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
08-25-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pictureplane
The Mountain Goats' Steady Struggle and Conquestnew
"It's all about me creating a space out of inside of myself where we can all suffer together, and raise our middle finger to the world to say that we're going to live through whatever suffering we're enduring." -- John Darnielle
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
04-07-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Interview: Wilco's Glenn Kotchenew
Wilco's Glenn Kotche talks about the idea exchange between rock and classical music.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
01-31-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Wilco, Glenn Kotche
Last Year's Mennew
Not quite out of high school, Last Year's Men have made one of the year's most addictive records.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
10-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Last Year's Men
Maple Stave Speaks With Its Musicnew
As a band, they're better than ever before on their new LP1. As analysts of their own music, they still struggle.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
10-14-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Maple Stave
The Body Might Have the Most Terrifying, Electrifying Album of the Yearnew
All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood takes doom metal -- that is, the most torturously heavy and slow music you can imagine -- and reshapes it with zeal.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
09-02-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Body
The Arcade Fire's ascension, and their cold stare back downnew
The Arcade Fire was once about possibility; they still sound that way, but—egalitarian subject, best-seller be damned—they're now at the top of the pile, coldly staring down at the mess.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
08-16-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Merge Records, The Arcade Fire
Two Jersey Boys Called Spider Bags Find a New Chance in North Carolinanew
Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World, the second album by Spider Bags, is a glorious mess. Each of its 10 tracks feels as if it fights from beneath a haze of distortion or gasps for air underneath a tide of tape hiss.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
09-18-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Dirty Little Heaters Live Better Through Rock 'n' Rollnew
This high-energy, high-emotion soul-punk-rock act comprises three rock 'n' roll lifers who committed to this band after tough bouts with life, love and other bands that didn't last.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
11-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Melvins: An Appreciation of an Aged, Evolving Beastnew
Here we are, 22 years later, and the Melvins stand as one of the most influential American rock bands in history
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
08-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: punk, The Melvins
The Avett Brothers Rose From Obscurity to Balance on the Brink of Famenew
So many goals are behind them: selling out New York theaters, playing the Grand Ole Opry, wowing the biggest American rock festivals. But this new deal with Rick Rubin's American Recordings puts the band in a different league.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
07-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Miami's Torche Recasts Metalnew
With Meanderthal, Torche joins the current crop of innovative heavy bands rising from the South, each of them taking historical reverence for divergent forms and funneling it into iconoclastic, brazen hard metallic shapes.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
07-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Talking with an Older, Smarter Gonernew
Goner -- now three men between the ages of 35 and 40 -- took some inspiration from Iron Maiden and The Boss on how to keep making albums while taking care of the kids.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
06-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Danish Rock Council Helps Out Efterklang and Slaraffenlandnew
Through programs like the Danish Rock Council and Music Export Denmark, which back Danish bands' tours, the government wants to show the world Denmark has unique cultural exports worth importing.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
05-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
