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Head of the Classnew
Although it possesses a stubbornly optimistic core, The Weight is a Gift more often rumbles with varying degrees of betrayal, deception and heartache that sound like rather painful therapy sessions.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
02-13-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nada Surf
Contort Yourselfnew
They have a new label and a new album, but they're the same old Conformists.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
01-23-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Conformists, Three Hundred
This Is Pop?new
The Click Five create harmonic bliss.
Riverfront Times |
Kristyn Pomranz |
01-18-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Click Five
Ari Upnew
Indiana's Ari Ari starts 2006 on a spazzy high note.
Riverfront Times |
Andrew Miller |
01-10-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Defying Gravitynew
Industrial rockers Gravity Kills celebrate their career with a reunion gig.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
11-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dyslexic Artnew
John Roderick of the Seattle-based band The Long Winters basically writes in non sequitirs and walks around all day in wet shoes.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
09-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bear With Themnew
Minus the Bear's latest CD represents a major shift away from the frenetic, knotty post-punk of recordings past.
Riverfront Times |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
09-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pearls from an Overlooked Oeuvrenew
Down in his basement, along with a shitload of his mom's old crap, is the makeshift recording studio where Bruce Cole recorded hundreds of songs beginning in the mid-1960s. Much of the material never saw the light of day.
Riverfront Times |
Randall Roberts |
08-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bruce Cole
Say Anythingnew
SoTheySay earns a record deal via hard work -- and a little help from the Internet scene.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
08-15-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
He's Only the Piano Playernew
Ben Folds' second solo full-length studio album resembles a series of snapshots of everyday life. Sonically it's the quietest album he's ever released.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
07-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Folds, Songs for Silverman
Rust-Belt Racketnew
An entanglement of music and manufacturing seeps into the music of this new-wave duo from Akron, Ohio.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
07-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Going Undergroundnew
Singer Jamie Stewart prefers baroque answers to pressing problems. A track on Xiu Xiu's upcoming CD describes cannibalizing the commander-in-chief.
Riverfront Times |
Andrew Miller |
06-28-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Basement Tapesnew
Kenautis Smith, the hardest-working producer in St. Louis hip-hop, knows how to create a beat.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
05-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kenautis Smith
Sympathy for the Dollnew
Devil Doll's Colleen Duffy is trying "to put the sex back into rock & roll." Ashlee Simpson she ain't.
Riverfront Times |
Jordan Harper |
04-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Devil Doll
Beat Meatnew
Like most of Cattle Decapitation's material, Humanure's lyrics take vegetarianism to its anti-human extremes.
Riverfront Times |
Andrew Miller |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
