AltWeeklies Wire
Teacher's Pedagogynew
'Here I Am a Writer' will inspire the most jaded educator.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
07-28-2011 |
Books
Come Out Swingingnew
Avant-electro trio the Royal Bangs are yet another great rock band to come from the South.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
05-04-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Royal Bangs
Soft-Rock Apocalypsenew
Don't let Dan Bejar's pop textures distract you from his aggressive lyrics.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-25-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Bejar
Wandering Spiritnew
ASU's Cynthia Hogue is haunted--and inspired--by time spent in New Orleans.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-09-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Bear With Itnew
William W. Johnstone's latest Western is like 'Jaws' -- only with fur, claws and wagon trains.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
02-28-2011 |
Fiction
Santa's Book Listnew
Grab an indie paperback for nice (and naughty) readers.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
11-18-2010 |
Shopping
Tags: Books.
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's: Buzzardnew
As the title sort of suggests, this is a starker-than-usual effort by the Indianapolis sextet Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, which used to be an octet.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
11-05-2010 |
Reviews
Thrash Pickupnew
Warning! One of the members of Spellcaster or Evil Survives may steal your indie-rock girlfriend.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
10-14-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Spellcaster
Gangster Choirboynew
Active Child's Pat Grossi talks choral music, harps and hard-core rap.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
09-29-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pat Grossi
Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Shares His Dark Vision of America's Ruinationnew
Since heavy metal's inception 40 years ago, back when Black Sabbath's eponymous debut was released, the notorious genre has been politically aware and sensitive to the state's growing power at the expense of individual liberties.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Obscurely Accessible: In Mourning's 'Monolith'new
Monolith is either a beautiful way to say goodbye to a broken world, or a chance to enjoy metal done right and - dare it be said - accessibly. Vocalist Tobias Netzell could be singing about flowers and bunnies, but methinks he's actually obsessed with end times.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
02-17-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: In Mourning, Monolith
'Black Future' Will Make You Feel 16 Againnew
One small label, Heavy Artillery, has thrash-metal down pat, scooping up young, ambitious, intelligent metal bands that honor yesteryear's greats while striving for a semblance of originality in a genre that blew its wad 25 years ago.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
01-06-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Black Future, Vektor
Exmortus' Blend of Neoclassical Melodicism and Brutal Thrashnew
Rare is the metal band that can shred your face clean off while using virtuoso techniques worthy of Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini — with all the sonic subtlety of a pissed-off Japanese giant monster. Which is why Whittier, CA's Exmortus tends to stand out amidst the current thrash-metal resurgence.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
01-06-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Making More Lists: Our Critics Keep Naming the Best Music of 2009new
Our annual saga of music Top 10 lists kicked off recently, and now we present to you the thrilling conclusion of Our Favorite Albums of 2009. One of the albums named: Vic Chesnutt's At the Cut.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene, Curtis McCrary, Michael Petitti and Stephen Seigel |
12-31-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Year in Review
Converge Reaches for Diversitynew
Axe to Fall aims to recapture a bit of the profoundly alien sensibility and weird terror that consistently puts 2001's Jane Doe at the top of any metalhead/punker's desert-island disc list.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
12-02-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Axe To Fall, Converge
