AltWeeklies Wire
Michelle Shocked's Songs of Praisenew
To Heaven U Ride is a gospel-based homage to New Orleans.
Gambit |
Alison Fensterstock |
09-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michelle Shocked, To Heaven U Ride
Traditional Fools Surf the Rocky Seas of Garage Punknew
The band's infectious, scuzzy surf punk is the best accompaniment this century has to offer to the twist, the shimmy, and the ladling of tropical punch.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Michael Harkin |
09-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Traditional Fools
The Coathangers: Boobie Trappednew
Local post-punks divide listeners with giddy girl power.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
09-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Coathangers
Folk Duo Bethany & Rufus Prepare to Charm the Crowdnew
Before this year, the pair's best-known collaboration was 2003's Rock Island, traditional Appalachian ballads and old prison songs with trance-electronica production overtop. For this year's 900 Miles they pared it down to cello and voice, with fetching results.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 900 Miles, Bethany & Rufus
Dan Deacon Leads the Future Shock Scenenew
Deacon and his Baltimore cohorts create kaleidoscopic works of rainbow-colored, ADD-addled brilliance, taking the last twenty years of pop culture and mutating it into something wonderfully familiar and yet decidedly new.
Chicago Newcity |
Sean Redmond |
09-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Deacon
The Doobie Brothers Enjoy Familial Blissnew
It's been nearly 30 years since the band reached a commercial peak and 20 years since it regrouped in 1987 to begin what has been an uninterrupted run of touring and recording.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Doobie Brothers
Al Yankovic's Coming Up on 30 Years in Music. No Joke.new
From his first noteworthy success in 1979 with "My Bologna" to last year's Top 10 hit "White & Nerdy," Yankovic has sold more than 12 million albums, earned three Grammy Awards and become a fixture in mainstream popular culture.
Colorado Springs Independent |
John Benson |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Weird Al Yankovic
Okkervil River's Will Sheff Doesn't Want to Be Brandednew
The Austin group has been called indie-folk-rock and "lit-rock," but Sheff thinks it's up to the listener.
Weekly Alibi |
Thomas Gilchrist |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Okkervil River, The Stage Names
Merle Haggard has Served His Time Making Musicnew
Haggard turned 70 in April, but he hasn't slowed down a whit: Over the past year and a half he has released five albums of new music in addition to a flood of reissues.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Merle Haggard
K-G and the Band Brings Globalism Homenew
Headed by first-generation East African immigrant K-G and his own U.N. of a backing group, the band takes its musical cues from the Platonist's view of migration.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: K-G and the Band
The Bird Names: Experimentation Without Affectationnew
The band's new album, Wooden Lake Sexual Diner, is too good to have come from a band that wastes energy fronting.
Chicago Reader |
Miles Raymer |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Timberlake Offers Encouragement to the Geek Withinnew
The beauty of Justin Timberlake is that more than any other pop star working today, he provides hope for the loser in us all.
The Georgia Straight |
Mike Usinger |
08-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sam Sparro Goes for 'Gold'new
Sam Sparro's debut EP, Black & Gold, hit the streets last week with a range of up-tempo bounce, digitized soul, and break-dancing elements that show remarkable range for a six-track release.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dennis Romero |
08-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black and Gold, Sam Sparro
Lamb of God: Extreme Ambassadorsnew
As one of the first of the current wave of extreme metal/hardcore bands to land a major label record deal, the band helped push the underground scene to the brink of mainstream acceptance.
Charleston City Paper |
Alan Scully |
08-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lamb of God, Sacrament
The Dynamites Pass the Road Testnew
Common funk and soul roots help the two-year-old band sound like old vets.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
08-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
