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The Avett Brothersnew
Keeping honest, even with festival crowds.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
05-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Avett Brothers
Worms, Mud, Bodies, Rootsnew
CocoRosie talks about heading to southern France to record their latest album in a "misty, dreary old farm."
INDY Week |
Brian Howe |
05-03-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: CocoRosie
Don't Shake Our Treenew
The Rosebuds locks itself at home and emerges with its most extroverted album yet.
INDY Week |
Chris Parker |
04-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Rosebuds
Nice Guys Finishnew
Hunter MacDermut doesn't like to talk about the solo acoustic music he makes as The Tourist -- he just likes to play it.
INDY Week |
Ruth Eckles |
04-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Tourist
Beat Up Punknew
Antelope -- the new trio from ex-El Guapo guitarist Justin Moyer -- is a staple of the evolving Dischord meme, and like most of the Dischord pop bands, they share punk's embrace of directness and concision.
INDY Week |
Jack McDonald |
03-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Antelope
Making a MASS-todonnew
Atlanta, Ga.'s Mastodon has perfected a brand of more-is-more heavy metal that bowls barriers and defies categorization in a genre that thrives on fine print and substrata.
INDY Week |
Robbie Mackey |
02-22-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Persistence in a Bottlenew
It took almost 20 years and eight albums, but The Bottle Rockets frontman Brian Henneman finally did it: He made the album he wanted to make.
INDY Week |
Rick Cornell |
01-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Bottle Rockets
Whose Limbs Shatter Mountainsnew
The marvelous, harder-than-fiction decade of Fin Fang Foom.
INDY Week |
Brian Howe |
01-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fin Fang Foom
Building Improvisational Structuresnew
Chicago percussionist Michael Zerang advocates self-reliance and community.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
01-11-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michael Zerang
Bleary Eyednew
Annuals ride debut buzz into CMJ -- can they ride it into a better second album?
INDY Week |
Arye Dworken |
12-14-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Annuals
Taking It to Church Againnew
Young bluesman Slick Ballinger turns to the gospel; keeps promises to family.
INDY Week |
Rick Cornell |
12-07-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Slick Ballinger
Seasoned and Savoringnew
Twenty-eight years after starting Sugar Hill Records in his college apartment, Barry Poss reflects on Durham's traditional influences.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
11-02-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Barry Poss
Static Clingnew
Mac McCaughan's band proper puts out its third album in a year.
INDY Week |
Chris Parker |
10-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Portastatic
Spontaneous Chemistrynew
Nearly 35 years since their first landmark, Chick Corea and Gary Burton return.
INDY Week |
Robert Hicks |
10-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
To Retract and Expandnew
Phon is a study in getting small to sound big.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
09-28-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Phon
