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Lawrence Ball: Method Musicnew
Few fans of the Who know or care about all that's been going on in Pete Townshend's intensely busy mind. Those who do may have followed the episodic progress of his utopian Lifehouse project, which resurfaced memorably around 2006 with his effort to synthesize a mass of original music gathered online.
Tucson Weekly |
Linda Ray |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
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
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
With Neon Indian, 21-Year-Old Alan Palomo Makes Roots-Pop for the Internet Agenew
Psychic Chasms explores a landscape of romantic loss and betrayal rendered as authentically as any acoustic pop ballad. Still, the sonic diversity of that landscape stretches, mashes and digs beyond the known universe.
Tucson Weekly |
Linda Ray |
11-18-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Neon Indian, Psychic Chasms
While the Backstory of 'Guilty Women' is Interesting, the Music Stands on its Ownnew
When Chris Gaffney died, Dave Alvin lost both a close friend and the frontman of his band, the Guilty Men. Alvin formed the Guilty Women to perform at a festival last fall because, he said, he couldn't bear seeing the empty spot onstage where Gaffney used to stand.
Tucson Weekly |
Linda Ray |
10-15-2009 |
Reviews
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
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
The Horse's Ha's Latest Brings Comfortable Compatibilitynew
Janet Beveridge Bean found her own voice in her 2003 Dragging Wonder Lake; her fans have eagerly awaited a follow-up -- and Cathmawr Yards almost counts.
Tucson Weekly |
Linda Ray |
06-17-2009 |
Reviews
Listen to Thesenew
It's time to make some lists of the best albums of 2008.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong, Annie Holub and Linda Ray |
01-02-2009 |
Music
Tags: Year in Review, Best Albums
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
The Patterned Lyricism of School of Languagenew
Somewhere between Elf Power or Sparklehorse and the jukebox in the Mos Eisley Cantina is an adequate reference point for School of Language.
Tucson Weekly |
Linda Ray |
06-11-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: School of Language, Sea From Shore
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
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
