AltWeeklies Wire
Slow Growernew
Yo La Tengo isn't afraid to let the momentum build gradually
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
05-06-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Yo La Tengo
Lazer Sword: Memorynew
Electronic duo and production team Lazer Sword—Antaeus Roy (aka Lando Kal) and Bryant Rutledge (aka Low Limit)—is back with its first studio effort since 2010's self-titled debut full-length. Memory, out on Modeselektor's Monkeytown label, is only a slight departure from the partnership's crunky roots...
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
06-25-2012 |
Reviews
Godhunter: Wolvesnew
Local sludge quintet Godhunter finally unveils a proper physical-CD release for their debut five-track album, which became available via the band's Bandcamp site earlier this year. Recorded at Arcane Digital Recording in Chandler and released by Tucson extreme-music label Acid Reflux, Wolves wields a medulla oblongata-wrenching wallop and obvious political (anarcho-libertarian) lyrics...
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
05-16-2012 |
Reviews
Whirr: Pipe Dreams (Tee Pee)new
Guitarist Nick Bassett of San Francisco black-metal band Deafheaven has a new, wildly different project, a shoegaze-revivalist sextet called Whirr. This mysterious Bay Area band ambitiously seeks to return rock 'n' roll to the year 1991, when My Bloody Valentine pushed miasmic guitar-pop to its outer limits with the acclaimed Loveless...
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
04-05-2012 |
Reviews
Breathe Owl Breathe: The Listeners/These Train Tracksnew
I don't normally go gaga for precious, family-friendly concepts like a 7-inch vinyl record accompanied by a homemade, hand-printed-from-woodblocks children's book. But Michigan indie-folk trio Breathe Owl Breathe, led by part-time author Micah Middaugh, has crafted an exceptional release that deserves attention.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
02-11-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Breathe Owl Breathe
Faves From 2011new
Our music critics discuss the best music from the year gone by.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong, Sean Bottai and Jarret Keene |
12-30-2011 |
Music
Twin Sister: In Heavennew
In the dry heat of a desert summer, nothing sounds livelier, more effervescent, more eardrum-quenching than Twin Sister's debut full-length, In Heaven. A Brooklyn (by way of Long Island) chillwave quintet praised by all the right online tastemakers (i.e., Pitchfork), Twin Sister is led by adorable, chirpy-voiced Andrea Estella, who takes a few cues from disco-dazzled, Parallel Lines-era Blondie and is clearly having too much fun presenting dance-pop gems like orbit-inducing "Space Babe."
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
09-02-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Twin Sister
Nekromantix: What Happens in Hell, Stays in Hellnew
On their new album, Danish-American psychobilly trio Nekromantix seem content to create music with a tongue-in-cheek horror shtick. Sexy new drummer Lux, a YouTube sensation known for her technical prowess and the fact that she plays the kit in high heels, brings a precise, forceful and metallic wallop, resulting in what's arguably the best-produced and most-aggressively arranged effort by a band that's been doing this for 20 years.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
08-26-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Nekromantix
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
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
