AltWeeklies Wire
Utah Phillips, 1935-2008new
The singer, songwriter, activist, historian, storyteller and railroad tramp died last month at his home in Nevada City, Calif. Though he spent a lifetime imparting stories, songs and poems to the multitudes that came to hear him play, he took with him all the bits that never got written down -- what he referred to as "the long memory."
Philadelphia Weekly |
Jeffrey Barg |
06-03-2008 |
Music
Reasons Why Robert Smith Just Might be the Rodney Dangerfield of Rocknew
Even within The Cure's seemingly bread-and-butter demographic (the Goth community), reverence is reserved for bands like Joy Division and Bauhaus while The Cure is often relegated to condescending comments like, “Fisher Price: My first Goth band.”
San Diego CityBeat |
Seth Combs |
05-28-2008 |
Music
Five Bands That Could Pass as Creepy Cultsnew
Dark Meat isn't the first hairy-scary music ensemble to be mistaken for some bizarre quasi-religious cult. Here are a few more that could qualify for a tax exemption.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
05-27-2008 |
Music
Jean Grae Says Peace Outnew
One of hip-hop's brightest MCs calls it quits. She says she means it.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Craig D. Lindsey |
05-19-2008 |
Music
Our Doomed Tie to the Thriving Local DIY Scenenew
Two of Dallas' DIY venues were recently closed own. They had issues, sure, but it's tough to ignore another thread running through each of these stories: Our coverage.
Dallas Observer |
Pete Freedman |
05-19-2008 |
Music
Columbia College's Student-Run Record Label is Actually Run by Studentsnew
The music industry has changed a lot since 1982, when Polygram chairman Irwin Steinberg and Down Beat publisher Chuck Suber started AEMMP Records, a student-run label at Columbia College that doubles as a music-business prep course.
Chicago Reader |
Miles Raymer |
05-19-2008 |
Music
L.A. Underground vs. the Copsnew
The LAPD has been leaning on the downtown party scene hard this year, with several recent events raided on unknown or specious pretexts. The latest casualty was Phoenix Projekt's pyrokinetic party.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Ron Garmon |
05-16-2008 |
Music
Warwick Stone is the Hard Rock's King of Collectorsnew
Walking through one room on the sixth floor of the Hard Rock Hotel is a crash course in half a century of popular music. Stone is the man responsible for all this music memorabilia.
Las Vegas Weekly |
T.R. Witcher |
05-16-2008 |
Music
Photographer's My Chemical Romance Nightmare has a Happy Endingnew
Last week was a wild one for freelance photographer Nichole Torpea. The 22-year-old UMSL grad was shooting the May 3 My Chemical Romance concert at the Pageant for Riverfront Times, when, she says, she was assaulted by a member of the band's security team.
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
05-16-2008 |
Music
The Recession of 'No Depression'
After 13 years in print, the magazine that helped to define alt-country has decided to stop the presses for good.
Birmingham Weekly |
Courtney Haden |
05-15-2008 |
Music
How the Chicago Symphony Landed the Music Director New York Wantednew
Italian conductor Riccardo Muti, who had reportedly turned down the music directorship of the New York Philharmonic at least twice in recent years, is signing a contract to become the CSO's tenth music director.
Chicago Newcity |
Dennis Polkow |
05-14-2008 |
Music
Some Uncomfortable Irony in the Dave Matthews Band's Drive to be Greennew
The quintet runs a website that will help fans carpool to shows, but when they tour the country together, Dave Matthews, LeRoi Moore, Stefan Lessard, Boyd Tinsley, and Carter Beauford each travel on separate buses.
Seattle Weekly |
Chris Kornelis |
05-12-2008 |
Music
Kool, It's the Kinks Konvention!new
Some of Montreal's most passionate guys and gals -- including the Besnard Lakes, Bionic, Sunday Sinners, along with members of the Stills and Apostle of Hustle -- are getting together to pay tribute to the dark brown voices of the British Invasion during the first-ever Kinks Konvention.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
05-09-2008 |
Music
Conservative Pundits Whine as Barack's Hip-Hop Supporters Opinenew
Dozens, if not hundreds, of underground rappers from all over the country have strongly resonated with Barack Obama's message. The Bay Area hip-hop community in particular has been solidly behind him, as evidenced by the popular "Obizzle Fa Shizzle" T-shirts seen around town.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
05-08-2008 |
Music
Why Southern Hip-Hop Is the Same as FOX Newsnew
Though FOX News and Southern rap both have anti-intellectual appeal, there's more to the story than that. Rather than simply pandering to the red-state masses, they have tapped into powerful populist sensibilities in areas that didn't previously have a national voice.
