AltWeeklies Wire
A hardworking redneck rapper like Yelawolf can't get nowherenew
On his own, Yelawolf crossed into the realms of pop, R&B and party music just fine. But when Eminem unveiled the first single from Yelawolf's debut on Shady Records, the album that followed was a mixed bag of half-baked attempts at branching out.
INDY Week |
Brandon Soderberg |
11-14-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Yelawolf
Simple Music Video Series: American Aquarium's "Jacksonville" and "Northern Lights"new
When asking BJ Barham of American Aquarium about his then-recent recording session with Jason Isbell, an immediate smile came over an otherwise exhausted face: "Fucking amazing!" Not much more needed to be said.
INDY Week |
Dan Schram |
08-27-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
The strange story and sound behind Supreme Dicks' new box setnew
Supreme Dicks' sense of unhinged possibility leads to a new brand of magical chaos.
INDY Week |
Marc Masters |
06-01-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Supreme Dicks
The drumming universe of Oneida's Kid Millionsnew
Man Forever isn't a band, a jam, or even a solo project. It's a piece of music, the kind of composition that can be taught to other musicians, a clockwork set to be wound and released in an exactly assembled way.
INDY Week |
Jesse Jarnow |
05-29-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kid Millions
Lee Fields: out from James Brown's shadownew
"I'm still a North Carolinian at heart. The way I approach songs, I think about some of the things I learned and experienced as a boy growing up in Wilson."
INDY Week |
John Schacht |
04-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jazz pianist Robert Glasper doesn't have time for a dead formnew
"Nine times out of 10, when you turn on [a jazz radio station], they're playing stuff from like 1950. It makes the music sound old—like it's already done and now we're just paying homage."
INDY Week |
Eric Tullis |
03-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Robert Glasper
The Boast and Bluster of Rapper Big Poohnew
"I adjust to any circumstance/ handle my affairs/ shake the hatred off, show 'em I don't really care/ No we don't compare/ I'm on another stair/ case in point, you ain't fuckin' with my last year."
INDY Week |
Eric Tullis |
02-28-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gauchiste's mix of metal and electronics is free to possibilitynew
"I know a lot of metal guys who would hear the Gauchiste and go, 'So, is this a soundtrack? Are these sound effects you guys made?'"
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
01-18-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gauchiste
Bio Ritmo's Fresh Salsanew
"It's our version of the aesthetic that inspires us, that whole '60s and '70s world. It's not a tribute. It's just picking up the baton, hopefully, and running with it for awhile." -- Rei Alvarez
INDY Week |
Sylvia Pfeiffenberger |
01-04-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bio Ritmo
Five Words with LiLanew
Durham's other live hip-hop band talks ambition and inclusion.
INDY Week |
Eric Tullis |
12-21-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: LiLa
The Accidental Fortune of Lizzy Ross' Read Me Out Loudnew
"It's the first chance I've had to really express the music the way I hear it in my head. And it's also the most accurate representation of what the band really sounds like and a representation of where I want to go as an artist."
INDY Week |
Ashley Melzer |
12-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: lizzy ross, read me out loud
Five Words with Southern Culture on the Skids' Rick Millernew
We caught up with the SCOTS frontman to discuss his band's history with fried chicken and what some folks call rednecks.
INDY Week |
Spencer Griffith |
12-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
After a Series of Strokes and Surgeries, Reese McHenry Survives and Bloomsnew
"Seems to me that she had a lot of energy building up while she was sick and was just not physically able to do all the things her spirit wanted to do. Now that she's better, all that kinetic energy is being released and she's super creative." — Spider Bags' Dan McGee
INDY Week |
Corbie Hill |
12-08-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Reese McHenry
The Swiss Bluegrass of North Carolina's Kruger Brothersnew
The Kruger Brothers perform progressively minded, classically conscious folk that's rooted in American tradition but flairs wildly with disparate influences.
INDY Week |
Spencer Griffith |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Kruger Brothers
Wesley Wolfe's Pursuit of His Own Finished Productnew
"If I buy a new pedal that can inspire a new song right there because you're working with a new pedal or a new effect. Or if you buy a new guitar to have in the studio, you end up playing it for a little while, and there's different song fragments," says Wolfe.
INDY Week |
Jordan Lawrence |
10-20-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
