AltWeeklies Wire
What's Rock God Chris Cornell Doing with Timbaland?new
Sure, Cornell's stylish crooning of the James Bond theme "You Know My Name" for 2006's Casino Royale showed he's matured considerably since his grunge-bellowing days, but what the fuck? A hook-up with über-urbanizer Timbaland represents a radical rethink.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
11-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Brit Cult Fave Holly Golightly Tries it Twangynew
By her own admission, Holly Golightly isn't overly familiar with country music. But that hasn't kept her from affecting a twang and recording Dirt Don't Hurt, a rootsy album of hayseed duets with her partner in musical crime, Lawyer Dave.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
11-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Muskox Infiltrates the Local Scene 3 Inches at a Timenew
Among the more intriguing music marketing enigmas to hit Toronto is the annual appearance on Soundscapes' shelves of mysterious mini-CDs housed in matchbook-like packages emblazoned with the image of a hairy horned beast: the mark of Muskox.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
10-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Muskox
Heavy 'n' hairy Crew Bison B.C. Busts Out of Van Citynew
Someone at Metal Blade must've recognized Bison's crossover potential with the non-metal crowd and decided to make the heavy 'n' hairy foursome of Masa Anzai, Brad Mackinnon, Dan And and Farwell the legendary alt-metal label's first Canuck signing.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
09-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bison B.C.
Brilliant New Film Documents Youssou Ndour's Spiritual Questnew
What first appears to be a conventional film biography of the Senegalese superstar reveals an entirely different dimension of Ndour.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
09-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mulatu Astatke and the Swinging Addis Scene of the 60s Pop Up in Many Unlikely Places Latelynew
The seductive slink that characterizes the captivating music of Mulatu--who is to Ethiogroove what Fela Kuti is to Afrobeat--is a combustible concoction of traditional Ethiopian modes and rhythms mixed in with some nasty Nuyorican boogaloo and busted out with the boisterous bash of a Question Mark and the Mysterians frat rocker.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
07-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dark Meat Massive Lets it All Hang Outnew
The Athens-based 17-piece band insists that it's members are not really communal-living hippie dope fiends, although they do enjoy fucking shit up.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
05-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dark Meat, Universal Indians
The Heavy Dwell on Funk's Darksidenew
If your bandmates are weedy tossers from Bath, you don't go around calling yourselves the Heavy unless you can deliver the wall-shaking goods.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
05-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Foals Aren't in It for the Money or the Famenew
If every so-called "new Radiohead" group sounded as energetic, enthusiastic and decidedly unlike any overwrought Thom Yorke self-indulgence as these reformed math rockers, the music world would be a much better place.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
05-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
White Denim's in Fashionnew
Austin buzz band makes unlikely leap from Airstream to mainstream.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
04-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Burning Hell's Uke Jukenew
Glockenspiel may be the new cowbell, but Burning Hell main man Mathias Kom is determined to make 2008 the year of the ukulele.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
01-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Burning Hell
Twig Breakingnew
Rising star Slim Twig's Suicide kick.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Slim Twig
NYC's White Magic Benefit From Special Powersnew
Mira Billotte of White Magic delivers "As I Went Out One Morning" with an otherworldly sweetness Bob Dylan's version from John Wesley Harding never had. This isn't the first time Billotte has benefited from some weird synchronicity.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
11-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: White Magic
How the Blakes Trio Became All the Ragenew
Like many of Seattle's seemingly overnight sensations, the Blakes are not a new group.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
11-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Blakes
Lone Sea Wolfnew
Alex Church whips up an unlikely epic.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
11-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sea Wolf, Leaves In The River
