AltWeeklies Wire
An Easy Glossary of Studio Terms, Dude
Learn studio-speak and hold your own with the music techies.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
11-22-2005 |
Music
New Standardsnew
Gold Sounds, a collection of Pavement songs performed by accomplished jazz musicians, dramatizes the absence of new "standards" -- contemporary pop songs on which to improvise.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
11-22-2005 |
Music
The Hustlernew
50 Cent gets a little less gangsta and a lot more money.
Boston Phoenix |
Leon Neyfakh |
11-21-2005 |
Music
Tags: 50 Cent
The Mad Bloggernew
Armed with keyboard and modem, the Internet's most controversial hip-hop blogger, Byron Crawford, is waging war with celebrity rapper Kanye West.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
11-09-2005 |
Music
Techno Vaporsnew
A new wave of French computer geeks burns through hip-hop's intestinal tract.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
10-13-2005 |
Music
Sip and Spinnew
Here's a rough guide to the candy-painted, syrup-soaked sound of Houston hip-hop
Baltimore City Paper |
Kye Stephenson |
10-06-2005 |
Music
More Music, Less Mathnew
The language of music composition is a math-based dialect. So when exploring the link between music and personality, why not talk to a numerologist?
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
10-04-2005 |
Music
Rap vs. Rapturenew
Christian hip-hop is on the march, but some say it's the Devil's music.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
09-22-2005 |
Music
Atlanta Bands' Adventures at CMJnew
It's the same every year at the CMJ Music Marathon: Bands are checking out each other, labels are checking out bands, college radio kids are looking for new additions for their playlists, and everyone is looking for free booze.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
09-22-2005 |
Music
Tags: CMJ Music Marathon
The Rise and Fall of an Indie-Punk Labelnew
Green Day funded much of the rise of Berkeley's Lookout Records, but the band will no longer keep the troubled firm afloat.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
09-20-2005 |
Music
Loud and Proud: R.L. Burnside, 1926–2005new
Rural Burnside began recording in 1967 when musicologist George Mitchell visited his North Mississippi home to make field recordings. He stopped last December, when a heart attack robbed him of his vitality. On Sept. 1, he died.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
09-16-2005 |
Music
What It Means to Miss New Orleansnew
Musicians in the city of blues and jazz have always played as if each day was its last.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
John Nova Lomax |
09-13-2005 |
Music
Cold as Icenew
Rappers Huggie Brown and Alphonzo Cowper deconstruct an early-'90s classic about a group of Los Angeles gangbangers who flee to St. Louis to escape the heat on them.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
09-06-2005 |
Music
Dead Poets Societynew
After rapper ThankGod was killed, some have wondered if his position at the center of Cleveland's hip-hop scene was his undoing.
Cleveland Scene |
Joe P. Tone |
08-30-2005 |
Music
Pearl Jam Goes to Bat Against Montana Senator Conrad Burnsnew
Jeff Ament tries to help Senate candidate Jon Tester find his voice with a fund-raising concert in Missoula.
Missoula Independent |
Skylar Browning |
08-26-2005 |
Music
Tags: Pearl Jam
