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My Dark Passengernew
How The Afghan Whigs soundtracked my twenties and have stuck with me ever since.
Cincinnati CityBeat |
Mike Breen |
10-17-2012 |
Music
A 'Big Menu' for Blues Fansnew
Blues in the Delta is still alive, and now it's getting organized. Over the past 10 years, the promotion of blues in the region has grown, including new museums and festivals.
Jackson Free Press |
Larry Morrisey |
10-01-2012 |
Music
Bass Controlnew
Esperanza Spalding raps about her groundbreaking Grammy Award, discovering the bass and cultivating creativity.
Monterey County Weekly |
Adam Joseph |
09-25-2012 |
Music
Tags: performance, Esperanza Spalding
A 'bigger-than-ever' Melody Fest comes to AT&T Centernew
It doesn't get any harder than this, unless The Panic Division turns it up to 11. But they don't need to: Colton Holliday's band has enough to go toe-to-toe with hard-rockers The Heroine, Memory of a Melody, and Cult to Follow (iTunes has CTF's single "Leave it all Behind," from their upcoming 2013 album).
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
09-20-2012 |
Music
Tags: Memory of a Melody
Why Girl Talk's Unlikely Career is a Big Dealnew
Gregg Gillis is doing something traditionalists angrily claim isn't music—and then making a living off of it, all without charging for his records.
New Music, Coming Soonnew
Local releases of note heading your way this fall
Tags: fall, fall music preview
Nitty Gritty Grunge Bandnew
When grunge died out, Mudhoney kept plugging in.
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
09-16-2012 |
Music
Tags: grunge music
The (Brief) Return of Boyjazznew
After a five-year hiatus, the Oakland band returns for one triumphant show.
East Bay Express |
Kathleen Richards |
09-13-2012 |
Music
Our Band Could Be Your Bandnew
How the Brooklynization of culture killed regional music scenes.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
09-13-2012 |
Music
The surprising perseverance of psychedelianew
Unyoked from its tie-dyed connotations, psychedelia is right in tune with a world where surrealism and high-definition realism have become the norm.
Tags: psychedelia
The Rise of Intricacy in Indie Rock's Female Voicesnew
The past few years have seen complicated, virtuosic singing—previously confined to big-label product—come to define female artists breaking new ground.
Noise of Summer: How 1990s summer jams made us dumberernew
In the days before earbuds, they were the anthems you knew by heart from just walking around town. And they were catchy and smart. But something happened in the 1990s: Summer jams started getting so subnormal, so tweaked to appeal to below-average intellect, that they'd rightly earn their place as sports anthems or become culturally appropriated by Disney.
Metro Times |
Michael Jackman |
08-27-2012 |
Music
5 More Sudden Awful Musical Marriages We'd Like to Seenew
Boy, that Avril Lavigne/Chad Kroeger engagement announcement came out of left field, huh? Who knows which other terrible music makers are secretly seeing one another right now? Why, it could be anyone! Even...
Houston Press |
John Seaborn Gray |
08-24-2012 |
Music
The Dark Sidenew
We were sitting around a picnic table at Stanley's Campgrounds outside of Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., drinking beer and George Dickel, playing poker and telling tales when Richard walked over from a neighboring trailer.
Jackson Free Press |
Joe Atkins |
08-17-2012 |
Music
Music For Miles and Menew
My nephew, Miles Jackson, emerged with a full head of spiky, dark hair. I began telling him about tunes immediately.
Jackson Free Press |
Garrad Lee |
08-16-2012 |
Music
