AltWeeklies Wire
Seventies Glam-Disco Partynew
Of Montreal proves there's life, funk and creativity after Elephant 6.
Houston Press |
Scott Faingold |
01-24-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Of Montreal, The Sunlandic Twins
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
Cows, Roses, Geese and Speechnew
Armed with microphones, patches and processors, M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel, the two halves of the odd brain that is Matmos, have repeatedly demonstrated they can pull music from pretty much anything.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
01-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Matmos
Not A Bad First Draftnew
Editors play instantly familiar hand-wringing, doomsday dance-rock with pants-off disco beats, throat-slashing ninja guitars and a bass archer firing off sexy groove darts like Gay Cupid in too much eyeliner.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
01-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Editors
True Gritsnew
The Gossip's Beth Ditto is cooking with meat -- and mixing riot grrrl gospel with punk rock panache.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
01-18-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Toon Tunesnew
Puffy AmiYumi, the Japanese pop group that Japanese punk-rockers are allowed to like, want to be taken seriously as rock musicians.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
01-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Good Repnew
Elizabeth Elmore discusses changes in indie rock, her budding law career and how she ended up on punk stalwart Lookout! Records.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
01-10-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sarge, The Reputation
Music to Cover Your Eyes Tonew
Houston's Nick DiFonzo has one of the world's finest collections of bad album covers.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
01-10-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Notes From Undergroundnew
Two decades on, Denver's Little Fyodor is still strange, witty and putting out geeky art-punk.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
01-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Little Fyodor
Keep Wine-ingnew
San Francisco's the Winechuggers guide listeners through the world of barflies, curmudgeons and beautiful losers.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kate Izquierdo |
01-06-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
A&R Q&Anew
Forget the guys in Wolf Parade, here's an interview with their A&R guy, Stuart.
SF Weekly |
Garrett Kamps |
01-04-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Soul of the Citynew
Who says Denver don't have hip-hop? D.O. The Fabulous Drifter, the conscience of the Mile High hip-hop community, offers this guided tour of the seldom-seen parts of Colorado and the heart of Denver hip-hop.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
12-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: D.O. The Fabulous Drifter, Wake Up
Dandy Mannew
Chief Dandy Courtney Taylor-Taylor wonders how many records The Dandy Warhols will have to put out before idiot reviewers realize they aren't trying to do the same thing as everyone else.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
12-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Year in the Lifenew
Xiu Xiu's percussion-heavy compositions are dramatic and strange. The band's music is a sign of the times.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
11-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Broken Bonenew
As a member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Bizzy Bone sold 15 million albums and won a Grammy, but his next goal is proving he's not crazy.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
11-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
