AltWeeklies Wire
Patti Smith on Everythingnew
Protean punk poetess Smith offers
answers on late-'70s New York and
domesticity in Detroit, covering Kurt Cobain and the looming post-Bush clean-up job.
Montreal Mirror |
Chris Barry |
10-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Patti Smith, Twelve
The Opposite of Selling Outnew
How a month of "Margaritaville" and a bald man with a hair dryer convinced Scott Ligon to get serious about music.
Chicago Reader |
Anne Ford |
10-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Scott Ligon
Mannequin Men: A Band of Brosnew
A growing fan base is just gravy when you love your bandmates.
Chicago Reader |
Liz Armstrong |
10-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mannequin Men
New Pornographers Await the Hold Steady's Reviewnew
Despite fair-to-middling reviews for Challengers, A.C. Newman is waiting to see what Craig Finn of the Hold Steady thinks of it.
The Georgia Straight |
Alexander Varty |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Challengers, The New Pornographers
DJ Vadim's Soulfu Swaggernew
By framing his latest album, The Sound Catcher, against Brooklyn's grimy, artistic demeanor, Vadim says his latest release is his most diverse to date.
Shepherd Express |
Jenn Danko |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DJ Vadim, The Sound Catcher
Suzanne Vega on 'Beauty & Crime'new
After a six-year hiatus, she returned this year with Beauty & Crime, a paean to her hometown of Manhattan filled with images of remembrance of Ground Zero in the days following 9/11.
Shepherd Express |
Harry Cherkinian |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Beauty & Crime, Suzanne Vega
Norwegian DJs Do It Differentlynew
Oslo-based cosmic disco specialist Prins Thomas (aka Thomas Hermansen) makes grooves that most would describe as odd and unusual.
NOW Magazine |
Benjamin Boles |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DJ Prins Thomas
Marcel Khalife: The Oud Man Outnew
For a musician who doesn't consider himself particularly religious and says he'd rather not talk politics, Lebanese oud maestro Khalife has been embroiled in a lot of controversy.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Marcel Khalife
The Chemical Brothers Innovate on 'We Are the Night'new
If anything, the only reason the album doesn't garner the pair as much praise as its debut, Exit Planet Dust, is that the rest of the pop world has closed the gap, and the Chems' brand of bombastic break-beats and rock-infused rocket rides aren't as far out as they were 12 years ago.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dennis Romero |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
No Age: Listening Between the Notesnew
No Age makes the most of minimalism.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
09-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: No Age, Weirdo Rippers
Homegrown Troubadournew
The music industry hype machine may have moved on, but Meridian, Miss. native Steven Forbert continues to record carefully crafted albums and tour throughout North America and Europe.
Jackson Free Press |
Larry Morrisey |
09-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sam Beam Spills Some Iron & Winenew
From the first notes of The Shepherd's Dog's "Boy With a Coin," it's clear that songwriter's songwriter and Texas transplant Sam Beam is no longer content to be classified as just another bedroom recording artist.
Austin Chronicle |
Dan Oko |
09-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Labor of Lovenew
Josh Rouse isn't afraid to embrace the term "craftsman."
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
09-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Next Alison Krauss?new
Shannon Whitworth may have a harder time shaking that moniker off than "formerly of the Biscuit Burners." But the Brevard, N.C.,-based songwriter and banjo player's music is as strong in her newly blossomed solo career as ever.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
09-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: No Expectations, Shannon Whitworth
Sugarland Launches CMT's Change for Change Tournew
The Georgia-based country/pop band is touring to raise money for Shalom Foundation, which helps fund school houses and infrastructure development in rural Guatemala.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sugarland
