AltWeeklies Wire
Back to Living Againnew
Musical journeyman dodges death to continue his quest.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
03-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Critical Bloodlustnew
Not even Lil Jon can save Ivy League pop-rockers from critics' chagrin.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ben Westhoff |
03-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Vampire Weekend
Flipping Their Whigsnew
Athens power trio builds a grassroots coalition of punks, metal-heads, and classic rockers.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
03-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rob Swift on Biters, Haters and Nerd Circlesnew
Swift has spent the last two years developing Ill Insanity, an X-Ecutioners spin-off gang alongside the comparably nimble-wristed Total Eclipse and Precision.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
03-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ill Insanity
The Uncaged Reflections of Black Swansnew
The band isn't the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down; it's the medicine itself, a soulful salve pursuing internal aberrations because there's something redemptive in their delivery, something undeniably good for you.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Nathan Baker |
03-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Swans
The Heavenly States Return to Earth With a New Albumnew
After a much-hyped trip to Libya, the indie-rock band refocuses on the music.
East Bay Express |
Matthew Green |
03-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Delayer, The Heavenly States
Peelander-Z from Outer Spacenew
Punk may be dead, but what about "Japanese action comic punk"?
C-Ville Weekly |
John Ruscher |
03-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Peelander-Z
Silent Years Rise Noisily with Anatomic Psych-Popnew
Listening to the Detroit psych-pop is like the childhood experience of being trapped under a rubber raft in a swimming pool: you're joyful and carefree one minute, then, suddenly, you find your small, child body trapped and fighting for air in the shadows beneath the raft.
Metro Times |
Wendy Case |
03-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Silent Years
A Good Match(box)new
Thirteen years after Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette embraces the undercard.
Colorado Springs Independent |
John Benson |
03-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alanis Morissette
Meet John Duchacnew
X frontman and solo artist John Doe revisits his Baltimore roots.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
03-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Brother Ali Deals with Life as an Outcastnew
He may be an albino and legally blind, but what defines this 29-year-old hip-hop artist from the Twin Cities is a gift for fighting his way to musical redemption.
Isthmus |
Rich Albertoni |
03-04-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Brother Ali
A Conversation with Ani DiFranconew
With the release of her new double-CD retrospective Canon, DiFranco has finally begun to slow down from the warp-speed career she's been riding since 1990, throughout which she toured constantly and released a record about once a year.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Justin Jacobs |
03-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ani DiFranco, Canon
Turbostation DJs Make Philly Nightlife Funnew
The story begins at the end of last summer when friends Steven Bloodbath and Johnny Woods were contemplating a scene that had gotten too cutthroat and boring.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Jack Schonewolf |
03-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Atlas Sound's Bradford Cox Vows to Keep his Drama to Himselfnew
It's Friday night and Bradford Cox is, by his own admission, "losing it."
The Georgia Straight |
Martin Turenne |
03-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Black Mountain Climbsnew
With In the Future, the band isn't about to shed the Led Zeppelin comparisons that greeted it early on, but the album may well establish Black Mountain as a priority -- a collective with truly equal members -- rather than another vehicle for McBean's musical vision.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Ian Gormely |
03-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Mountain, In the Future
