AltWeeklies Wire
Shady Nate Comes Out of the Shadowsnew
The number two rapper of West Oakland's Livewire crew emerges as a boss.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Garrett Caples |
11-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Shady Nate
Putting Blues Into A Higher Gearnew
Louis Arzo "Gearshifter" Youngblood fuses traditional Mississippi electric blues with acoustic guitar.
Jackson Free Press |
Larry Morrisey |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Louis Arzo Youngblood
Royal Dead Does the Zombie Stompnew
Despite his blood-soaked T-shirt and ghoulish colored contacts, there's a smirk on Eddie Suicide's face that lets you know he takes his band's mantra of gore and destruction only half-seriously.
Weekly Alibi |
Simon McCormack |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Royal Dead
Isaac Brock Doesn't Like Softball Questionsnew
You start an interview easy, with some chill question that allows your source to go on and on about himself, to warm to you. This is, apparently, not the way to go with Isaac Brock, a man who isn't hot on the idea of explaining himself or why his band's latest album is so much better than a lot of the shlock Modest Mouse put on shelves in the last decade.
Weekly Alibi |
Marisa Demarco |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Modest Mouse
Sturm und Twangnew
Lewis & Clarke explore uncharted territory at the banks of the Delaware Water Gap.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
DL Jones' Wasted Talent?new
With the help of Amp Fiddler and other notable friends, producer DL Jones has created the What's Goin' On of Detroit hip-hop, 2007
Metro Times |
Hobey Echlin |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DL Jones, Wasted Talent
Jason Isbell Goes Solonew
For the past six years, Isbell has been known as one-third of the Drive-By Truckers' formidable guitar attack. Now, he wants to be known as something else: a solo artist.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jason Bugg |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jason Isbell, Sirens of the Ditch
Schoolyard Heroes Run with the Devilnew
If you're gullible, you might classify the four members of Schoolyard Heroes as devout devil-worshippers.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pete Freedman |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Schoolyard Heroes
Michael Hurley Returns After Never Really Leavingnew
The drawling, iconoclastic singer/songwriter has released sporadic slow-burning, charming folk albums on little labels for 40-plus years -- now we're on the brink of a full-fledged Hurley revival.
Baltimore City Paper |
Mike McGonigal |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ancestral Swamp, Michael Hurley
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Frontman Takes a Breaknew
Instead of reflecting on the past, Alec Ounsworth chooses to simply remember. And sometimes the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah frontman doesn't even do that very well.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Anthony Layser |
11-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Paquito D'Rivera: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Saxnew
D'Rivera has countless albums (and nine Grammys) under his belt, but Funk Tango is his baby -- his first self-produced CD.
Isthmus |
Susan Kepecs |
11-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Funk Tango, Paquito D'Rivera
Jon Spencer Knows Heavy Trash is Confusingnew
Taking their inspiration -- and title -- from the 1926 autobiography of itinerant petty crook Jack Black, the men of Heavy Trash go for strip-club grind and analog-tape manipulation, allowing Spencer to deliver a hilarious but spooky sermon on post-9/11 America.
The Georgia Straight |
Adrian Mack |
11-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Them Terribles Compete in MTV2's Battle of the Bandsnew
Since signing the band up for the online battle over the summer, the band's gone from one in 4,000 to one in six now vying for the prize, which includes a professionally shot video, a televised live concert, and a good deal of free, MTV-approved PR.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Aly Comingore |
11-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Them Terribles
Ingram Hill's Bass Player Woesnew
After completing Cold in California, the group's original bassist left the band. Then there was another guy ... he didn't last.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
11-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cold in California, Ingram Hill
Nantucket's Long Journeynew
The group shared stages with AC/DC, Kiss, Cheap Trick, Styx and Journey, and was even the subject of a bidding war in 1977. But they just never had that No. 1 hit.
INDY Week |
Kathy Justice |
11-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nantucket
