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South African Hip-hop Hero Tumi Goes Solonew
Tumi has the verbal dexterity of Pharoahe Monch and the lyrical clarity of Nasir Jones. His moniker often gets bandied about in "who's the best MC?" conversations across the globe.
NOW Magazine |
Addi Stewart |
08-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rick Ross' Rough Real Talk Turns Out to Be Not So Real After Allnew
How stunning was it when The Smoking Gun discovered that Ross, one of hip-hop's most popular new artists, was really a former Florida Department of Corrections officer named William Leonard Roberts?
NOW Magazine |
Addi Stewart |
08-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bon Iver is Trying To Break Your Heartnew
How a Wisconsin winter inspired one of the years most talked about albums.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Andy Hines |
08-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
Velva's Multimedia Geekfest Bends More than Circuitsnew
Velva's work displays both a geek's love for technology and for tearing technology up and making something else out of it. That something in this case is songs that pile up glitchy beats, circuit-bent-toy sounds, eight-bit-video-game noises, and customized analog synth guitars (including the "space axe" and "guitari").
Chicago Reader |
Miles Raymer |
08-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Banner Yearnew
It’s been five years since Jackson rapper David Banner released his first major label record, “Mississippi: The Album.”
Jackson Free Press |
Bryan Doyle |
08-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Malian Guitar Sensation Habib Koite Riffs on Influences, Recording, and His Beginningsnew
In the ever-expanding landscape of "world music," few performers are as widely recognized or revered as Malian guitarist Habib Koite.
Seven Days |
Dan Bolles |
08-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Humanizing Katy Perrynew
Unlike other artists, who get to gloat about how much of themselves they put into their record, Perry has to field questions about the controversy trailing her hit single—controversy, of course, her promotional team was very much relying on.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
08-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Katy Perry, One of the Boys
With 'electric hillbilly' music, Thornton's wildernew
Running from 'Angelina' to Zappa with musician(!) Billy Bob.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
08-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Boxmasters
The State of the Pink Spidersnew
After flirting with fame and fortune, Nashville's most decadent local rockers The Pink Spiders lost a major-label deal and two of the three founding members -- so now what?
Nashville Scene |
Cody De Vos |
08-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Pink Spiders
Power pop pariahsnew
Steve E. Nix and The Cute Lepers hope for hate from heavy metal and emo fans.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
08-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Aaron Tippin keeps on pushingnew
The 50-year-old Tppin seems like a Cracker Barrel kind of guy: warm, respectful, "down-home."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kirsten Akens |
08-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Billy Bob Thornton Finds His Musical Voicenew
Thornton teams up with J.D. Andrew and Michael Butler (and a lot of others on record and in the live show) for music that's a mixture of straight-ahead rock and country touchstones such as Johnny Cash and Buck Owens.
The Memphis Flyer |
Werner Trieschmann |
08-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Boxmasters
Film School's New Disc Gets Its Beats From My Bloody Valentine Drummernew
It's hard to remain casual when one of your idols is in the room. Now imagine said idol happens to be a member of one of your all-time favourite musical acts, and that he's recording tracks for your album.
The Georgia Straight |
John Lucas |
08-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Apple Miner Colony Induces Mellow Mayhemnew
The group is a fresco, a mixed and matched selection of strings, brass, electric and acoustic instruments sweeping with ruddy choruses, that hold the audience's collective attention above the spectacle of witnessing such a large band at play. The live show and the band's recently released album confirms that relevant and soulful music is alive and well in Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Gabe Gomez |
08-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Faint Take Their Time in Search of Perfectionnew
The quintet's fifth disc, Fasciinatiion, is so perfectly danceable that it would hardly be surprising if the Faint had carefully charted each track out on a graph ahead of time.
The Georgia Straight |
Gregory Adams |
08-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
