AltWeeklies Wire
KaiserCartel Skips School to Bring Its Hopeful Harmonies Out Westnew
Elementary school teachers Courtney Kaiser and Benjamin Cartel won't be returning to the classroom this fall. Instead of tutoring kids in music and art, they'll be continuing their summer tour into the autumn as indie-pop duo KaiserCartel.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Mandy Moench |
08-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
George Thorogood's Making New Music, But He Knows What You Want to Hearnew
Thorogood is considering at what point he should quit making new music and instead rely on his back catalog to fill the set list for his live shows.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
08-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: George Thorogood, The Hard Stuff
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
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
Austin's Whitman Taunts the Pop Monsternew
What can you say about musicians whose debut album opens with a song declaring, "All we are is nothing at all" and closes with one in which "prosthetic limbs fall from the trees"?
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
07-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Lyle Lovett's Not-quite-as-Large Band Hits the Roadnew
This summer, Lovett will turn his attention from writing to touring. This time out, the Large Band won't be quite as big (er, large) as it has been on some tours.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
07-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Black Pegasus Mixes Politics with Punchlinesnew
The Black Mexican may sound like a gimmicky concept itself, but it's no novelty record. As a battle rap veteran, Robert Houston offers up plenty of punchlines, but serious subtexts also find their way into the mix.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
07-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Steve Winwood Keeps the Faithnew
Former Traffic frontman looks back on Blind Faith and reunites with Eric Clapton.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
07-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Steve Earle on TV Roles and Winning Another Grammynew
It was a case of art imitating life when Earle found himself cast as a recovering addict on The Wire, the alt-country troubadour having suffered for years from heroin addiction before finally going clean 13 years ago.
Colorado Springs Independent |
John Benson |
07-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Don Edwards and His Hologram Keep the Singing Cowboy Ethos Alivenew
The Texas Tourism Board, in order to help promote the state as a vacation destination, flew Edwards to New York last year and recorded his performance in front a holographic camera.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
07-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Psychostick Stays Serious About Being Funnynew
The Phoenix shtick-metal band Psychostick may be really dumb. Then again, the group could be really smart.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
07-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
After Work with a Fountain and Pumpkin, America Returns to the Roadnew
Part of what's interesting about the studio recordings for Here & Now is they involve an unlikely collaboration with co-producers Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and James Iha, the former guitarist with Smashing Pumpkins -- two artists associated with modern rock, not the kind of relaxed country pop for which America is known.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
07-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Koko Taylor Returns to the Stage Undiminishednew
A lioness that tears into her material with brash, brassy intensity, Taylor has been hailed by many as the Queen of Chicago Blues. Even at the seasoned age of 79, she still puts any up-and-coming vocalists to shame.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Paul Davis |
06-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Lasting Impact of the Fluid on Sub Pop's Rosternew
In fact, it was the Fluid who turned Nirvana on to Nevermind producer Butch Vig.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
06-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
