AltWeeklies Wire
Stop Making Centsnew
Spotify's stateside launch offers music-lovers 15 million free tracks, but at whose expense?
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
07-28-2011 |
Music
Amy Winehouse’s Death Should Take Us to Her Musicnew
“Reality is a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs,” Lily Tomlin once said. Amy Winehouse couldn’t cope.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-27-2011 |
Music
Tags: Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse, R.I.P.new
Many in the online peanut gallery are saying that the death of Amy Winehouse was "inevitable"—that the gamut of her gossip-page-worthy problems was going to result in sadness no matter what. It is hard, as someone who has watched the music news cycle up close for the past few years, to think that she hadn't already had enough tragedy befall her, to wonder if this particular closing chapter wasn't preventable somehow by not rushing her back to the stage when she clearly wasn't ready, or if the point-and-gawk cycle was just too powerful.
The Village Voice |
Maura Johnston |
07-23-2011 |
Music
Tags: Amy Winehouse
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Womannew
Aretha Franklin's early years -- which is to say before she had discovered her style of soul or become its queen -- come into focus in Columbia Anthology.
Metro Times |
Brian Smith |
07-15-2011 |
Music
Our guide to the Pitchfork Music Festivalnew
In the past few years Pitchfork has started booking a stage at Primavera Sound in Spain and collaborated with All Tomorrow's Parties for a festival in the UK, and this fall it launches a festival in Paris. But Chicago is still the influential online music magazine's home base, and the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival is the seventh large-scale event it's hosted here.
Chicago Reader |
Miles Raymer, Peter Margasak, Kevin Warwick, Bill Meyer and Leor Galil and Mara Shalhoup |
07-14-2011 |
Music
L.A. Left Comatosenew
Blame it on the L.A. traffic, but it’s actually kind of cool arriving just as Girl in a Coma are starting up, taking in the full crowd, walking past the vendors’ booths.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
07-08-2011 |
Music
Tags: Girl In a Coma
Ram Ayala’s Son and His Quest to Take Over What — He Says — Belongs to the Familynew
“I’m taking over the Ram Jam thing, there’s no doubt about that,” said Eddie Cruz, the son of murdered nightclub owner Ram Ayala.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-08-2011 |
Music
Much Ado About the ’Roonew
Squat now or forever hold your pee. I was presented with a moral dilemma — should I make the long trek to the Port-o-Pots where there’d inevitably be a line, or strip my shorts down to my ankles, balance myself between the tires of two cars, and let it go?
LEO Weekly |
Sara Havens |
06-23-2011 |
Music
Tags: Music Festivals, Bonnaroo
Accordion Babes will Demand Your Complete Surrendernew
Since 2008, a group of international female accordion players has been publishing a photo calendar of themselves in pin-up style and touring on the strength of a CD mix included within it.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
06-20-2011 |
Music
Tags: Amber Lee Baker, Accordion Babes
Brian Eno's (First) Golden Yearsnew
Never did a man with so little have so much influence in the history of music.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
06-17-2011 |
Music
Tags: Brian Eno
Oakland's Jazz Musicians Sing the Bluesnew
Oakland jazz musicians continue battling for higher wages.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
06-16-2011 |
Music
Goodbye, Gil Scott-Heronnew
New York has killed the counterculture poet and singer.
NOW Magazine |
Joshua Errett |
05-27-2011 |
Music
A Break for Charles Bradleynew
At 62, the soul singer finally releases his debut album.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
05-09-2011 |
Music
Ribsnew
RIBS have never shied away from their comparisons. Likened by fans and critics to such hard line, atmospheric rock monsters as Nine Inch Nails, Deftones and Muse, the Boston quartet embraces these associations as both a testament to their established musicality and an indicator of form towards attracting new fans.
Dig Boston |
Steve Church |
05-06-2011 |
Music
Tags: Ribs
Kind of Bluenew
Will the Bay Area's jazz scene ever live up to its ambitions?
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
05-04-2011 |
Music
