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Our Band Could Be Your Bandnew

How the Brooklynization of culture killed regional music scenes.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
09-13-2012 |
Music
Shangri-Blahnew
A poor Xerox of the diva's classic work.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
03-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Dangerous Game, Mary Weiss
Unclear on the Concept
M. Ward's Post-War has a concept problem: The war he's singing about isn't over.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
09-22-2006 |
Reviews
Dire Straights
The Bad Religion frontman's attempt to make a folk record sounds clinical and calculated.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
08-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Cold as the Clay, Greg Graffin
Crossroads Scholarship
Graveyard Shift is raw -- nasty, funky, fucked up, and its warped vocals and hardscrabble guitars would appropriately horrify tourists in blues mausoleums like Memphis or New Orleans.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
08-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Graveyard Shift, Scott H. Biram
Wild, Wild Guest
I Stand Alone is Ramblin' Jack standing alone, strumming his guitar, groping at melody lines with his gravelly old voice, and giving his distinctive stamp to traditional material while refusing to fix what ain't broke.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
08-04-2006 |
Reviews
Petal to the Metal
Patton still hasn't quite lost the surfer swagger that made him a pioneer of the worst genre ever to chest-beat its way out of the Golden State: rap-metal.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Peeping Tom
Foucault's Pabulum
His Americana may be bland, but it goes down smooth.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ghost Repeater, Jeffrey Foucault
Gimme Trouble
Adult. is consciously trying to escape the dance floor.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews