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'Finding Forever' is Thoroughly Adult Hip-hopnew
If that description sounds contradictory, it's only because so few of the genre's artists have been able to make this transition successfully.
Tags: Common, Finding Forever
Ryan Adams Is As Prolific As Evernew
This troubadour's artistic inclinations still know no bounds.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
08-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ryan Adams
Justice Keeps the Energy Pumpingnew
The duo's electro-fiddling tends toward the egalitarian, not the exclusionary, with amped-up beats and floor-filling giddiness balancing out the occasional nod to pomposity.
Across Tundras Bring the 'Blizzard'new
The EP has demos of three tracks slated for the next recording, plus a pair of curios that find Tanner Olson and friends exploring the crossroads of traditional folk and modern atmospherics.
Tags: Across Tundras, Full Moon Blizzard
Ice-T Answers the Tough Questionsnew
Well, at least the ones his manager saw fit to ask.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
07-23-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ice-T
'Holladay' is Time Well Spentnew
The marriage of punk and roots music was consummated long ago, but the relationship hasn't stopped working, and this band knows it.
Digitizing Theater Adsnew
National CineMedia is the future of movie-theater advertising -- and probably the future of movie theaters, period.
Our Daily Breadnew
Newspapers keep cutting staff, but Jake Jab's American Furniture Warehouse is standing by them -- why?
Tags: media
Chris Cornell Is Free at Lastnew
Audioslave's former frontman can now go his own way.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
07-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chris Cornell
'The Mix-Up' Falls Way Shortnew
If all they could come up with in the three years since their last album is mildly enjoyable filler, these guys are either out of fresh ideas or overloaded with pre-owned ones.
Tags: Beastie Boys, The Mix-Up
Yellowcard's Frontman Breaks His Silencenew
Ryan Key on his persistent throat problems and his band's new disc.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
07-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Yellowcard
It's Tough to Recapture the 'Zeitgeist'new
Corgan tries to win back disenchanted fans by hewing close to the combo's classic sound -- an approach that results in a listenable yet overly familiar CD underpinned with neediness.
Tags: Smashing Pumpkins, Zeitgeist
A Typically Off-kilter Release from Pete Wernicknew
The banjo expert, of Hot Rize fame, has never been content to imprison himself within genre conventions, even when the style is bluegrass, a format he loves.
Ryan Adams Returns to Formnew
Easy Tiger is tighter and less indulgent than anything he's issued since the dawn of his solo career.
Tags: Easy Tiger, Ryan Adams
Mavis Staples Speaks Outnew
The civil-rights era is far from over for this songstress.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
07-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mavis Staples
