AltWeeklies Wire
Paying Hell for Paying Tributenew
While critics tear down his album of Modest Mouse covers, fans seem generally pleased with Mark Kozelek's latest effort.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
05-24-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mark Kozelek
Discovering New Countrynew
Young, cute and sweet, Sarah Borges doesn't have a lot of grit to her, but her twang is more than adequate, and she easily makes up for her grit-deficiency with her great old-timey honky-tonk yarns.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
05-17-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sarah Borges
Exquisite Bummersnew
Murder By Death's new album, In Bocca al Lupo, features a breadth of songs whose themes touch on everything from murder, death, violence and criminal suffering.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
05-17-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: murder by death
(And Malcolm in the Middle)new
Matters and Dunaway distinguish themselves from the bulk of the electronic acts that have purists so squeamish -- they are, through and through, a live band.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
05-10-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Matters and Dunaway
Chanteuse on the Loosenew
You'd be well-advised to experience Giant Drag's uniquely familiar sound before the band lives up to their name.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
05-10-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Giant Drag
Kanye the Hard Waynew
When Alain Macklovitch was 13, he was dropping bar mitzvah cash on a pair of turntables and a mixer -- two years later, as DJ A-Trak, he was owning multiple world DJ championships.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
04-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A-Trak
Kid-Tested, Oldster Approvednew
Mittens have finally grown into their mature music: smart and simple pop that's totally inoffensive.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
04-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mittens
Throwback Rockers Get All Scott McClellan on Our Assnew
According to Elliott Chaffee of Hats and Glasses, the band "just plays rock & roll."
Dig Boston |
Chase Stauffer |
04-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hats and Glasses
The Unfettered Music Festivalnew
The line-up for this year's Terrastock promises festival-goers the chance to get their (musical) freak on.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
04-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Terrastock
Solo Soul; Man Oh Mannew
Jamie Lidell's new album, Multiply, is 10 tracks of sweet, pining, shaking, Motown-inspired white-boy soul.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
04-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jamie Lidell
Voodoo Reduxnew
The Gris Gris have balanced their fondness for elder weirdos with a whole palette of sounds all their own.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
04-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Gris Gris
Non-Sequiterrific!new
The fun of Paper Thin Stages is, thankfully, less evening at the Improv and more screaming down a waterslide -- lots of scripted non sequiturs, flailing melodic movements and catching one's breath.
Dig Boston |
Devin King |
04-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paper Thin Stages
Ultra-Pragmatic MCnew
Ghost has towered over hip-hop and emerged as an enigmatic presence on par with no other MC.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone |
04-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ghostface
Blowing Up Like Chernobylnew
After five years of relative obscurity, the unstoppable, eight-piece gypsy-punk ensemble Gogol Bordello has landed spots on Jimmy Kimmel and piled up accolades on a recent tour through the UK.
Dig Boston |
Joe Keohane |
04-06-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gogol Bordello
David Berman's Second Comingnew
In 1989, David Berman started the Silver Jews in NYC, when he and a couple of dudes from college decided they wanted to have a "silver" band -- so begins the story of the silver semites.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
03-15-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Silver Jews
