AltWeeklies Wire
Sunrise on a Green Daynew
San Francisco may have the most thriving underground music scene in the country, but very few mainstream acts emerge out of it, at least few that we can be proud of. Green Day is a rare exception.
Burnednew
Delays in CD deliveries have some Colorado bands screaming mad. Some say it's one more example of the vulnerability of young bands in a cutthroat business, while others say it's just the bad economy. Welcome to the music-industrial complex.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
11-22-2004 |
Music
Big Nothingsnew
If bleakness blankets singer-songwriter Elliott Smith's posthumously released CD, that doesn't mark a major change in tone from his previous albums.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
11-22-2004 |
Music
Song Lyrics Attest to Superman's Enduring Appealnew
Superman is mentioned in over 280 songs. The Man of Steel has become easy shorthand for the American dream or the Purveyor of Your Wildest Sexual Fantasies.
Houston Press |
Rob Harvilla |
11-16-2004 |
Music
Method Rocking: Juliette Lewis and Minnie Driver Have Started Bandsnew
Musicians do a better job of switch-hitting as actors than vice versa. Two actresses, Juliette Lewis and Minnie Driver, have launched their own bands with conflicting results.
Five Steps to Achieving Metal Health, the Metallica Waynew
Two years ago, members of Metallica paid a sports therapist to help them deal with one another. He wasn't qualified so New Times offers a better prescription.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jason Bracelin |
11-08-2004 |
Music
Bay Area Alt-Rock Station Becomes Hip-Hop Tastemakernew
San Francisco's Live 105 is giving rappers like Outkast their mainstream breakthrough.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
11-08-2004 |
Music
No Ray of Hopenew
The Genius of Soul allowed wine, women and song to cloud his political judgment
NOW Magazine |
Norman (Otis) Richmond |
11-05-2004 |
Music
Tags: Ray Charles
Nashville Royaltynew
Tim McGraw and Alan Jackson, vying to be kings of country, gear up for the Country Music Awards.
Boston Phoenix |
Sean Richardson |
11-05-2004 |
Music
Fashionable Retro Rock Has Jumped the Sharknew
Interpol is like the older brother to Killers, Scissor Sisters and Franz Ferdinand, the one who tipped his siblings off to "cool music."
Dallas Observer |
Garrett Kamps |
11-02-2004 |
Music
Rockin' in the Free World: Soundtracks for Election Night Shindigsnew
Just as you can't have a Red State Mix Tape without Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA," neither can you have a Blue State tape without Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
11-02-2004 |
Music
Voter Rapathynew
J-Kwon is merely another pinky-ringed cog in the ambitious machine known as the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network. The organization is a noble, unprecedented attempt to enchant the disenchanted. Can it succeed?
Fight Songs: Taking Up Arms Against Major Record Labelsnew
The members of Downhill Battle see a music industry that's broken -- bloated, outdated, money-hungry, monopolistic -- and they aim to fix it.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
10-22-2004 |
Music
Johnny Ramone: 1949-2004new
Johnny Ramone was the guitar player who without uttering a word showed all the other punks how to do it.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
09-24-2004 |
Music
Move Over, iTunesnew
Two Seattle companies—behemoth Microsoft and startup Chondo—provide an alternative for online music lovers.
Seattle Weekly |
Michaelangelo Matos |
09-15-2004 |
Music
