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Day Action Band on the Family Lifenew
On Wives & Babies, Matt and Nate O'Keefe sing largely about long workdays and kids in car seats and finding happiness at home. Not groundbreaking, no?
Tags: Day Action Band, Wives & Babies
Little Brother Has Something to Provenew
On Getback, Big Pooh and Phonte hint at apology, balancing newly nuanced social- and self-criticism.
Tags: Getback, Little Brother
Animal Collective: The Gateway Drug to Experimental Musicnew
Over five albums, they've developed a strident sonic approach, using noise, sustained tones, short, iterative samples, delirious tribal drumming and sing-to-the-sky harmonies to make points of skewing pop on a slow-burn pyre.
Tags: Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam
Charlie Haden & Hank Jones Meet at the Beginningnew
In 1995, after long careers, they gathered in the studio as a duet, recording Steal Away. Jones was pushing 80 and Haden nearing 60.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
09-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Kronos Quartet Injects Politics Into 'Monk/Mavericks: Kronos on Innovators'new
Anton Webern, Terry Riley, Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, Harry Partch, John Zorn: Harrington had held these composers in equal admiration for decades. Last night, he finally let those giants stand together, and it felt good.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
09-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ba Da Bing Records Goes Boomnew
Ben Goldberg finds well-earned success with his record label.
In Chicago, Slint Sticks to the Original Scriptnew
At the Pitchfork Music Festival, the band handles Spiderland minimally, and just right.
After Death, Marriage and Birth, Two Dollar Pistols are Backnew
The Pistols are warm again with the release of Here Tomorrow, Gone Today.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
06-22-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Two Dollar Pistols
El-P Forgets the Facts of His Lifenew
I'll Sleep When You're Dead signals a shift in lyrical approach that's tempered the aim of his laser tongue.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
06-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: El-P
Comas Alivenew
Frontman Andy Herod talks happiness and returning South.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
05-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Comas
Dan Deacon: Total Smarty Partynew
The Baltimore composer cleary gets the most high-minded concepts of electronic music, experimental composition and all points in between.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
05-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Deacon
The Avett Brothersnew
Keeping honest, even with festival crowds.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
05-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Avett Brothers
This Will Do Just Finenew
Led constantly by the mercurial Herod through frequent line-up shifts, The Comas have been looking for their identity since sometime around 1998 -- they may have finally found one.
Kaleidoscopic Psychedelics & Sundried Melancholynew
This Chapel Hill five-piece doesn't try to hide the fact that they live for guitars.
Tags: *SONS, Viracochas
No Future Festival: A Subjective Music Experiencenew
Noise is, by its definition, a pejorative term, but in the last three decades, the term has been claimed, conquered and owned by a worldwide music community.
