AltWeeklies Wire
Terence Blanchard Leads the Waynew
Using his music to help shed light on the entire Katrina tragedy, the horn player recently wrote and performed the music for director Spike Lee's highly acclaimed HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke. Then Blanchard went a step further by adding to the music used in Lee's film to create the recently released album, A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina).
Charleston City Paper |
Alan Sculley |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Coming Up Shortynew
Fame's fickle spotlight eluded Guitar Shorty for a good quarter-century, before rediscovering him the past few years.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Parker |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Guitar Shorty, We the People
Spin Doctors Frontman Seeks to Reconnectnew
The mixed commercial success of the Spin Doctors' recent albums and the band's perpetual love/hate relationship with themselves have influenced Chris Barron to record his first mainstream solo effort, Pancho and the Kid.
Charleston City Paper |
Josh Eboch |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The New Music Collective's New Project is a Strong Effortnew
These aren't tweedy types scoring self-serving masterpieces that will never be heard. The NMC aims to perform its work. In front of people. And those people, some of them devotees of the jam music scene with curious minds and open ears, seem to like it a lot.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Band of Horses Come Homenew
The opening guitar notes and soft cymbal splash creep up on you subtly, before Ben Bridwell's potent, reedy voice alights "Is There a Ghost" with its recurring pronouncement, "I could sleep, I could sleeee-eep."
Charleston City Paper |
Jeff Clark |
01-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Band of Horses, Cease to Begin
Mike Farris: a Uniquely Redemptive Storynew
"When I'm playing music, it's like prayer," Farris says.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
01-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mike Farris, Salvation in Lights
Will Hoge: The Man Behind the Curtainsnew
For a guy who's spent two-thirds of each year for the last 10 on the road as a working musician, Will Hoge maintains a refreshing sense of humor about it all.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
12-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Draw the Curtains, Will Hoge
Soul:Sister:Musicnew
Laura Reed & Deep Pocket's inspired voice continues to grow.
Charleston City Paper |
Christine McDermott |
12-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gaslight Street Polishes Its Actnew
The Charleston rock quartet's spiritual home seems to be the Deep South by way of London circa 1967.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
12-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gaslight Street
Dublin's Mike Got Spiked Seize the Statesnew
The band plays frighteningly tight hybrid of emo-metal, old-school punk, and bar-room mischief -- aggressive and solid.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
12-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mike Got Spiked
Creech Holler Twist the Murky Music of the Delta & the Appalachiansnew
The Tennessee/Carolina trio plays blood-soaked country blues and reverberations.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
11-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Steep Canyon Rangers Flex Bluegrass Chopsnew
The Rangers are one of the few young bluegrass bands die-hard traditionalists don't mutter under their breath about.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jay Clifford Officially Goes Solonew
The Charleston songwriter reveals a finely-tuned solo debut this week.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Driving Blind, Jay Clifford
They Might Be Giants Switch Gears Yet Againnew
The band recently made a daring move, undertaking a surprising, unexpected collaboration with notorious production team the Dust Brothers.
Charleston City Paper |
Alan Sculley |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: They Might Be Giants
Mute Math's Spirited Strugglenew
Mute Math survived a tangle with a major label and played their rock their way.
Charleston City Paper |
Alan Sculley |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mute Math
