AltWeeklies Wire
Fair To Midland's Still Getting Definednew
Audiences are eating up Fair to Midland's newest material, even as the band remains uncertain about it.
Dallas Observer |
Pete Freedman |
01-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fair To Midland
The Wailers Honor the Memory of Bob Marley by Continuing the Social Revolutionnew
The core of what has become a family tree of musicians began in 1963, when Bob Marley, Bunny Livingston, Peter McIntosh, Beverley Kelso, Junior Braithwaite and Cherry Smith united as a ska band known as The Teenagers.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
01-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tower of Power Celebrates 40 Years with Reunions and a Rebootnew
It's not simple luck that Tower of Power is celebrating 40 years as a band. It's more like a freakin' miracle.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Steve Palopoli |
01-09-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Who is Brian Wilson?new
Since the first “Brian Is Back!” campaign in 1976, Wilson has developed something like the tidal rhythm of the sea he sang about: sometimes in, sometimes out; sometimes high, sometimes low.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Chris Ziegler |
01-09-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Hawk and a Hacksaw Does Eastern Europe with an American Accentnew
Jeremy Barnes first heard Bulgarian women's choirs while driving through West Texas in 1996, and he was hooked. He moved to Hungary two years ago to live among and learn from some of the area's masters but has always sought to interpret traditional styles through the contemporary lens of his American background.
New York Press |
Amre Klimchak |
01-08-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Vagabond Opera Sings Outside the Boxnew
It isn't uncommon to be let down by something that comes along calling itself "opera," only to find out that it either has nothing at all to do with opera, or that it's basically a musical. But the Portland, Ore.–based Vagabond Opera actually lives up to its name.
New York Press |
Ryan Tracy |
01-08-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Vagabond Opera
Kev Choice Created a Cult of Personality by Straddling Two Worldsnew
Choice's new downloadable album, The Bailout, is a return to the classical mixtape format -- it has three sampled tracks and eighteen original beats, all blended seamlessly together by DJ D-Sharp, all available for free. It's a strange convergence of genres and creative processes, but the result is fascinating.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
01-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Toxic Holocaust Provides the Soundtrack for a Post-Apocalyptic Worldnew
Joel Grind claims he writes songs about a "Mad Max kind of world" more influenced by science-fiction fantasy or art than today's headlines. Toxic Holocaust isn't trying to provide commentary.
East Bay Express |
Jarret Keene |
01-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ami Dang Bridges Classical Sitar and Voice with Western Avant-Garde Musicnew
It's abrupt when you hear Indian classical music as meditative and spiritual -- that is, as it is intended to be. And it's even more abrupt when it's heard woven into Western avant-garde music, each element working to develop/unshroud the other. This act is a large part of the sublime art of Ami Dang.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
01-06-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Canada's Constantines Sail Down 'Credit River'new
Assembling a song that responds to current events is a long process, lagging far behind the speed we've grown to expect in the internet era. the best you can hope for is that changes in the world will make one of your songs unexpectedly topical and timely -- that is exactly what's happened with the Constantines song "Credit River."
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
01-05-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bela Fleck and Steve Earle Collaborator Casey Driessen Takes His Trio on the Roadnew
Driessen's influences are all over the map. And some of them -- like, say, British electronicist Squarepusher and seminal jazz violinist Stuff Smith -- barely seem from the same universe.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
01-05-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gregg Allman Talks Hammond, Tape and Shroomsnew
I've got Gregg Allman on the line and he's telling me a story about the time he and the rest of the Allman Brothers Band lived together and ate psilocybin tablets (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) every day for eight weeks.
New Haven Advocate |
Sean Corbett |
12-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Colorado Might Have the Only Anime-Focused Ensemble in the Countrynew
The Symphonic Anime Orchestra may very well be the only group devoted entirely to playing music from anime and Japanese video games.
Boulder Weekly |
Dylan Otto Krider |
12-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jackson Pop-Punkers At Cliffs End Know How to Go Through Vansnew
In the less than two years since the band formed and began touring, the group has seen one burn due to wiring problems, another destroyed when they collided with a tree, and a third is currently under repair.
Jackson Free Press |
Candace Parker |
12-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Avett Brothers Herald Fame with a Rick Rubin-Produced Albumnew
Acoustic roots-rockers the Avett Brothers are poised for their big break, but even as they look forward to the coming year, band members seem unwilling to make any predictions.
Mountain Xpress |
Alli Marshall |
12-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Avett Brothers
