AltWeeklies Wire
Yeasayer Devours Styles, Goes Popnew
While Yeasayer's bizarre but enchanting debut, All Hour Cymbals, hardly aims for that kind of narrative focus, it shows the band similarly gorging itself on a host of styles and sounds.
The Portland Mercury |
John Motley |
01-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: All Hour Cymbals, Yeasayer
The Conundrum of Cool Nutznew
With his next record scheduled to drop in the summer of 2008 on a nationally known label, and his recent work the best of his career, why is Cool Nutz still fighting to gain a reputation as a legitimate artist in his hometown?
The Portland Mercury |
Graham Barey |
01-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cool Nutz
Marco Benevento Has a New 'Baby'new
Much like the work of Benevento Russo Duo, the new record will appeal to fans of Theolonious Monk, Air, Radiohead and Phish.
New York Press |
David Callicott |
01-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Invisible Baby, Marco Benevento
Country-Fried Rocknew
Austin's Mother Truckers get back to their rock roots.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Broke, Not Broken, Mother Truckers
Feel the Beatnew
Kendrick Scott, 27, joins a number of greats as part of the Monterey Jazz Festival all-stars.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kendrick Scott, The Source
Yeasayer Trots Along Unexpected Musical Pathsnew
The Brooklyn band has managed to engage even the most cynical of indie veterans with its escapist realm filled with an uncompromisingly authentic helping of psychedelic guitar noodling, hypnotic pop vocals, and worldly percussion that's as reminiscent of Carlos Santana as it is of Animal Collective or the Cure.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Fred Miketa |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Yeasayer
White Williams Resolves to Stretch the Limits of Electronic Pop Rocknew
In 2007, Williams' debut full-length received a fawning review on Pitchfork, ensuring instant credibility with the hipster set. He was also featured in Nylon and invited to tour with Girl Talk. Such an action-packed past year would seem likely to lead to a bright future, and Williams is eager to talk about what's in store for 2008.
San Diego CityBeat |
AnnaMaria Stephens |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: White Williams
After the Rapturenew
The House of Mercy Band meet the end times singing.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Sarah Askari |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: House of Mercy Band, left behind
The Tao of Steve Poltznew
The fidgety troubadour is a master of darkly comic songwriting.
San Diego CityBeat |
Nathan Dinsdale |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Steve Poltz
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
Bug Juicenew
Duo scurries along with roachlike transcendence.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: La Cucaracha, Ween
Fresh Heiressnew
'80s baby helps Timbaland give R&B a space lift.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: In a Perfect World, Keri Hilson
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
The Fiery Furnaces Get Fired Upnew
The band campaigns on platform of '70s synths and heavier rhythms.
C-Ville Weekly |
John Ruscher |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Fiery Furnaces
