AltWeeklies Wire
Vampire Weekend Backlash at SXSWnew
The hype factory had everyone ready to hate on Vampire Weekend before the band arrived in Austin.
Dallas Observer |
Pete Freedman |
03-24-2008 |
Music
Utopian Societynew
The Simple Ones and a couple of ex-Grifters help Shangri-La Records celebrate 20 years.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Davis |
03-21-2008 |
Music
Grave Mattersnew
"I came to Memphis to find musicians' gravesites, including James Carr's," Steve Suskie says. He visited New Park Cemetery to pay Carr his respects, but the manager told Suskie that Carr had no gravestone.
The Memphis Flyer |
Preston Lauterbach |
03-21-2008 |
Music
Toronto Hip-hop's Bad Rapnew
With so many insanely great artists making bangin' beats and dope discs, why is the local scene so slept on?
NOW Magazine |
Addi Stewart |
03-21-2008 |
Music
Music of the Spheresnew
Metal is from Mars and girly-pop's from Venus. We have proof -- the yin, the yang, and the whang-dang-doodle.
Boston Phoenix |
James Parker and Sharon Steel |
03-20-2008 |
Music
Define Suckcessnew
Say Si students give San Antonio band Pinata Protest (and SXSW) a music video to rock them to the core.
San Antonio Current |
Sonya Harvey |
03-19-2008 |
Music
Tags: Pinata Protest
South by Cynicnew
South by Southwest underwhelmed -- again -- but a few fab moments shined through the product placement.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
03-19-2008 |
Music
Trent Reznor Dreams Up a Remarkable Way to Sell Albumsnew
With its web-based, pay-what-you-want distribution of In Rainbows, Radiohead demonstrated that it's easy for established acts to take control of their own releases. Now Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has one-upped the Englishmen.
Tags: Nine Inch Nails
Would You Give This Man a Record Label?new
Hiring celebrity blogger Perez Hilton as an A&R man might not be such a terrible idea after all.
Chicago Reader |
Miles Raymer |
03-17-2008 |
Music
Vinyl-phile Karim Khan Launches New Wax-only Labelnew
"Karim Khan" might sound like the name of Captain Kirk's latest nemesis, but he's actually something much more benign: Pittsburgh's latest vinyl supremacist.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Manny Theiner |
03-17-2008 |
Music
Not for Posersnew
A playlist of good Irish music that has not been tainted by the holiday.
Jackson Free Press |
Rob Hamilton |
03-17-2008 |
Music
Cleveland Musicians Band Together to Fight Pay-to-Playnew
Cleveland rockers are uniting in Musicians' Local 00, an informal alliance of groups opposed to the pay-to-play practices that make most local shows an unpredictable, overcrowded clusterfuck.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
03-14-2008 |
Music
Same Ol' Songnew
Club owners owe royalties for cover songs played on their premises.
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
03-14-2008 |
Music
The Boredoms Pound Their Way Onto the Astral Planenew
Two decades into their career, the Boredoms are making music as vital, as questioning, as singular, as therapeutic, as honest, as Dada, as real, as funny, as awesomely brilliant as ever, and their influence is far greater than their relative stateside obscurity.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
03-14-2008 |
Music
Tags: Super Roots 9, The Boredoms
E-Mixnew
Andre Anjos and the Remix Artist Collective leverage initiative, ingenuity and the Internet into an online music force.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
03-14-2008 |
Music
