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Changing Their Tune: The Low Anthem's Stylenew

The Low Anthem loves old instruments, new microphones and creating their own style.

Tucson Weekly | Linda Ray | 03-17-2010 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, The Low Anthem, Charlie Darwin, Oh My God

Hawthorne Heights Brings Back Screamnew

Hawthorne Heights moves on from the death of Casey Calvert with a new record label.

Tucson Weekly | Linda Ray | 12-02-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Hawthorne Heights, Skeletons

Toubab Krewe Branches Out with New Instruments and Geographic Influencesnew

In some ways, Toubab Krewe may actually come closer to giving us a sense of West African music than any Putumayo production. In fact, you could say they're the real deal, were it not for what some ethnology snobs might consider a cultural-appropriation problem: The band hails from Asheville, N.C.

Tucson Weekly | Linda Ray | 10-07-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Live at the Orange Peel, West African music, Toubab Krewe

Son Volt's Brand-New Album Gets Back to the Basicsnew

With American Central Dust, Jay Farrar returns to familiar musical territory -- pedal-steel moans and shimmers, fiddle flights and trills, percussion passing time or skipping a beat, all surrounding Farrar's guitar in his signature melange of folk, country, blues and ballad pop.

Tucson Weekly | Linda Ray | 07-08-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: American Central Dust, alt-country, Jay Farrar, Son Volt

Dressy Bessy Finally Finds a Decent Drummernew

After various trials, Dressy Bessy lead Tammy Ealom is comfortable with her new drummer and happy to be performing live.

Tucson Weekly | Linda Ray | 12-04-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: drummers, Dressy Bessy, Holler and Stomp, Tammy Ealom

Resonantly Humannew

While Sea Wolf's songs may seem bleak, they nevertheless brim with vitality.

Tucson Weekly | Linda Ray | 05-15-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Sea Wolf, Leaves In The River

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Wants 'to Stick to What We Know'new

Pershing is a series of endearingly articulate, metaphor-laden conversations with complicated girls -- artsy, spiritual, ambivalent.

Tucson Weekly | Linda Ray | 05-07-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Pershing

Bandwidth and Elbow Greasenew

Boys Like Girls' "overnight success" happened thanks to a lot of hard work.

Tucson Weekly | Linda Ray | 04-24-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Boys Like Girls

Tift Merritt is a Changed Womannew

In the last four years, she's lost her label, left her North Carolina home for New York City, and spent a lot of time in Paris, sorting herself out and writing new music.

Tucson Weekly | Linda Ray | 04-17-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Another Country, Tift Merritt