AltWeeklies Wire
Jamie Stewart's Infinite Sadness Is Exhaustingnew
Jamie Stewart is a morgue-serious songwriter. And yet it's impossible to take the Xiu Xiu frontman seriously. The ache in his indie rock takes introspective moping to such an exaggerated extreme it's difficult to endure with a straight face.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
04-08-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Leslie Hall Is Known for Electro-Dance Pop Beats and Gem Sweatersnew
Though Leslie and the LY's' music is similar to other alternative-electro types, their inspiration remains in the craft-store and thrift-store aisles, with a little (clothing-specific) party mood thrown in.
Gambit |
The Gambit |
04-08-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Electro-Maestro Dan Deacon Unveils an Android Symphonynew
The unruly Baltimore DIY artists' collective Wham City was evicted in 2007, and the scope of Bromst in turn reflects a post-party Deacon.
Gambit |
Noah Bonaparte Pais |
04-08-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Detroit's Fabulous Counts Never Got Their Duenew
They are the best funk band you've probably never heard of -- or even heard. And if you have, you're probably already burning a candle in hope of future stateside dates.
Metro Times |
Don Waller |
04-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Doors and the Dead? Hendrix and the Who? What Were They Doing in Colorado Springs?new
It was a marriage made somewhere other than heaven: The Lizard King and the Homecoming Queen, together for the first and last time at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
04-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: live music, Colorado Springs
Audrye Sessions Contemplates the Good Lifenew
Audrye Sessions has gone through a lot, including the dissolution of a romantic relationship, extended recording sessions in a haunted barn, and a close encounter with a plummeting airplane. But let's begin with the truck-stop orgy.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
04-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Audrye Sessions, indie rock
The Members of Los Campesinos! Know How Lucky They Arenew
The music scene is clogged with performers desperately seeking stardom. So Los Campesinos! guitarist/songwriter Tom Campesinos! sees the irony in the quick rise of his group, which quickly earned buzz-band status even though none of its members actively sought it.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
04-06-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Afromotive's New Sound, New Lineup, New Visionnew
Asheville, N.C.-based Afrobeat ensemble The Afromotive, now in its fifth year, is no stranger to change. After restructuring, the group returns with an upbeat sound and positive mission.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
04-01-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Argentina's Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Release Their First Studio Album in 10 Yearsnew
In the modern history of Latin alternative music, no other band has been more successful and influential in mixing different rock streams with Afro-indigenous rhythms than the Argentine now-six-piece combo.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
04-01-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Leave the Ego Behind and the Music Will Follow With the Yahowa 13new
For the past 30 years the music of the Yahowa 13 has entranced that segment of music heads who dig spaced-out excursions into psychedelic tapestries and krautrock tumults of infinite jams.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
03-31-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Kenny Tompkins' Side Hustle Hasn't Spoiled Him Yetnew
Christmas Lights frontman Kenny Tompkins describes Walk Like a Human as a meditation on "the challenges of waking up every day"--something that, for many paycheck-to-paycheck workers, is increasingly tough to do.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
03-31-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
HEALTH's Two Albums Will Not Cause Drowsinessnew
HEALTH's DIY punk ethos is evident throughout their raucous, succinct and frenzied eponymous debut. But for those who can't get past the occasional grating dissonance contained within HEALTH, there's DISCO.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
03-26-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Bit of Hawaii Is Traveling Around the Mainlandnew
Slack is back: George Kahumoku, Jr. brings the Hawaiian Treasures Celebration Tour to Tuscon.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
03-26-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dangerous Ponies Know What They Like and Make It Look Easynew
While the Dangerous Ponies are readying their full-length debut, this week they're out on their first tour, playing a string of dates on a diagonal path to Texas for Gay by Gay Gay, a queer spinoff of the much-ballyhooed South by Southwest music conference.
Philadelphia City Paper |
John Vettese |
03-24-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Branford Marsalis: King of Kingsnew
A revered jazz saxophonist's life with Leno, Sting, and a decade-old quartet.
Seattle Weekly |
Jonathan Cunningham |
03-23-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
