AltWeeklies Wire
Speaking for the Last of the Breednew
Merle Haggard teams with Willie Nelson and Ray Price.
Shepherd Express |
Alan Sculley |
03-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Merle Haggard
Strictly 4 My J.O.G.G.A.Z.new
Workout music gets fly with Aesop Rock's Nike-commissioned "All Day."
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
03-22-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Aesop Rock
Screaming for Vengeancenew
With The Locust Years, Hammers of Misfortune lean a heavy, hobnailed boot on the tender throat of commercial rock and take protest music to a new level.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Josh Wilson |
03-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hammers of Misfortune
Anglo-Irish Borderline Degeneratesnew
Rum? Sodomy? Whipass!
Philadelphia Weekly |
Neil Ferguson |
03-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Pogues
Great Expectationsnew
The Halifax rock trio Great Plains Finally gets its outstanding, long-simmering debut, Home of the Totem, into the world this week.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Chris McCluskey |
03-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Great Plains
Up, Down, Out and Aboutnew
With their sophomore smash A Weekend in the City, U.K. dance-punk darlings Bloc Party rock around the clock, taking in the good times, bad vibes, wasted hours and magic moments.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
03-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bloc Party
Bizarre Pop Scientistnew
Charting Andrew Bird's unconventional path toward rock stardom.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
03-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Andrew Bird
'The Whole Houston Sound'new
Honky-tonk hero explores his hardscrabble Houston roots with an autobiography and a CD.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
03-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Johnny Bush
Loud, Lew, Loathed ... and Loving Itnew
A lot of bands claim to tear their audiences a new one -- Montreal's Trigger Effect can proudly claim they actually have.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
03-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Trigger Effect
All of the Joy, None of the Jesus
Singer-songwriter Susan Werner writes gospel music without using the gospel.
Eugene Weekly |
Suzi Steffen |
03-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: building community, folk, gospel, helping people, Iowa, jazz, losing faith, music, review, standards, susan werner, The Gospel Truth
To Here Knows Whennew
Thrushes keeps the shoegaze flame burning all these years later.
Baltimore City Paper |
J. Bowers |
03-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sun Come Undone, Thrushes
Open the Doornew
The Crown Prince of Soul is 100, and you'd better believe it.
Chicago Newcity |
Patrick Roberts |
03-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Crown Prince of Soul
The Stooges: Back on the Streetnew
In 1969, the Stooges began a proto-punk revolution and flamed out -- now Iggy Pop has reconvened the dum dum boys for another round of dangerous fun.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Steve Appleford |
03-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Stooges
Little Man Singer Chris Perricelli Takes His Shotnew
It took a sense of humor for the five-foot-two Perricelli to call his band of 10 years Little Man.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Peter S. Scholtes |
03-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Little Man
Montreal Magiciansnew
Malajube transform the ebullient into the exotic.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
02-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Malajube, Trompe-l'Oeil
