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Say Anything Throws Emo Caution to the Wind with Follow-upnew

Upping the ante is the fact that In Defense of the Genre is a dreaded double CD, and a concept album to boot.

San Antonio Current | Cole Haddon | 11-07-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: In Defense of the Genre, Say Anything

Ben Harper Finds His 'Lifeline'new

"The hardest thing any musician will ever do is follow an album that's decent," Ben Harper says of his 2006 release, Both Sides of the Gun. "To avoid self-adulation, I'll just use the word 'decent.'"

San Antonio Current | Cole Haddon | 10-31-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Lifeline

Barrio Brigadenew

Bombasta teams with San Diego's B-Side Players for a night of one-world polyrhythms.

San Antonio Current | Gilbert Garcia | 10-24-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Cafe Tacuba's 'Sino' Tops the Band's Albumsnew

When Cafe Tacuba came out of nowhere (Mexico City, to be exact) in 1992, few realized that we were witnessing the arrival of the New Messiahs of Spanish-language rock.

San Antonio Current | Enrique Lopetegui | 10-17-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Cafe Tacuba, Sino

Joe Ely Does Some Reflectingnew

This year he's released a pair of albums on his Rack'Em label, Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch and Silver City. The two discs are in some sense the soundtrack to his new book, Bonfire of Roadmaps, which compiles his musings from a life spent on the road, beginning when he was 17.

San Antonio Current | Chris Parler | 10-17-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Joe Ely

Between the Buried and Me Find Cohesion in Kitchen-Sink Arrangementsnew

The collision of punk, hardcore, and extreme metal has sent factions splintering in every direction and the Buried & Me's latest release, Colors reunites them all.

San Antonio Current | Chri Parker | 10-03-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Between the Buried and Me, Colors

Steven Drozd: The Flaming Lips' Secret Weaponnew

Keith Richards once described the impact rock 'n' roll had on him as a teenager by saying that hearing it transformed life from black-and-white to Technicolor. You could make a similar case for the liberating effect Drozd had on the Lips.

San Antonio Current | Gilbert Garcia | 09-19-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Flaming Lips