AltWeeklies Wire
Changing Their Tune: The Low Anthem's Stylenew
The Low Anthem loves old instruments, new microphones and creating their own style.
Tucson Weekly |
Linda Ray |
03-17-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
The African Zeitgeist: Bassekou Kouyate, Tradition and Innovationnew
While hipster America's romance with West African music may not last long, a live look at the source is long overdue (in fairness, there aren't a lot of options). There's no better opportunity than with Malian Bassekou Kouyate.
The Portland Mercury |
Andrew R Tonry |
03-11-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Getting to Know Ke$ha, Pop Sensationnew
It was the day after Christmas, and we were dancing at 12th & Porter while Ke$ha danced barely three feet away. She already had the No. 2 song in the country, but she wouldn't be a global it-girl for at least another week. In retrospect, we should have cut in.
Nashville Scene |
Sean L. Maloney |
03-05-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Lyrikill.com Bumrushes South Florida TV Reportersnew
'This is how we do,' whispers the rapper, who calls himself Lyrikill.com. 'We stake it out, and then if you look right over these bushes, you can see they 'bout to go live... And when they go live, that's when we hop out these bushes.'
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Gus Garcia-Roberts |
03-02-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dallas Cowboys Lineman Tries To Cast His Huge Shadow On The Music Industrynew
At 6 feet 6 inches, 365 pounds and one of the strongest dudes to ever play in the National Football League, Dallas Cowboys' Pro Bowl offensive lineman Leonard "Bigg" Davis could crush me with his thumb. Instead, he's going to play me a lullaby.
Dallas Observer |
Richie Whitt |
03-01-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Spirit of the Boogie: An Interview With Kool of Kool & the Gangnew
It's a good thing that Mr. Robert "Kool" Bell didn't answer his cell phone when I first tried to call him. Had he picked up, I wouldn't have had the pleasure of hearing his groovy voice mail greeting: "You have reached Kool, and it's kool to leave a message."
Weekly Alibi |
Jessica Cassyle Carr |
02-26-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Redneck Woman Gretchen Wilson's Search For Radio Redemptionnew
Just over a year ago, Gretchen Wilson looked into the abyss. Her third album, One of the Boys, had tanked. The label team that had guided her 2004 debut CD Here for the Party to quintuple platinum sales had largely been swept away in the wake of a corporate merger.
Nashville Scene |
Rob Simbeck |
02-26-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Damian Lazarus Talks Techno and the Changing Face of Electronic Labelsnew
Damian Lazarus is sitting at the dining-room table of his Echo Park home trying to recover from a five-day touring blitz that he and his label mates at Crosstown Rebels have just finished. He's a bit worn down, but that's part of the deal.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
02-26-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dreams of Life and Death: Looking Back with Patti Smithnew
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were barely 20 when they met, a couple of androgynous hippies newly arrived in New York City to live among the bohos and Beats, the Factory divas and "extravagant bums" swirling around the boroughs, the Bowery and the Chelsea.
L.A. Weekly |
Steve Appleford |
02-19-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Goodie Mob Reconnects, Gets Back to the Musicnew
It's hard to love Southern hip-hop and not love Goodie Mob. It seems like the mere mention of the group that gave us "They Don't Dance No Mo," "Cell Therapy" and coined the phrase "Dirty South" makes fans get all nostalgic.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Mike McCray |
02-11-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Goodie Mob
Los Angeles Beatmaker Nosaj Thing's a Deft Distillernew
Like many young musicians, Los Angeles–based beatmaker Jason Chung (aka Nosaj Thing) isn’t much more than the sum of his influences. What’s remarkable about Chung is how deftly he distills and commingles secondhand sounds.
The Georgia Straight |
Martin Turenne |
02-08-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jason Chung, Nosaj Thing
Discarded Album Revives Forgotten Chapter of Minneapolis Music Historynew
t all started with Shelley Pierce hunched over the vinyl bin at Cheapo. She had most of the albums she wanted, but enjoyed the thrill of the hunt. As she finished flipping through the new arrivals, a short, plump woman in her 50s came in the front door of the store, lugging a crate full of used vinyl records.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Emily Kaiser |
01-27-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Will Dondria Have to Check Her Personality at the Door?new
What started with a $15 webcam and the simple idea to post YouTube vids of herself singing a cappella R&B covers turned into an Internet phenomenon after her rendition of Ciara's Promise garnered more than 1 million hits. That's when Jermaine Dupri came calling.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Rodney Carmichael |
01-26-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Patti Smith on Christ, Cobain and Robert Mapplethorpenew
Twenty years after the death of her friend and lover, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, punk-rock pioneer Patti Smith has released Just Kids, her memoir of the couple's bohemian, hardly-fed days in late-'60s New York City.
Seattle Weekly |
Chris Kornelis |
01-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tooth & Nail’s Latest Cover Boy, a Grammy-Nominated Seattleitenew
Rural Appalachia is not generally regarded as a breeding ground for the arts, but it was in a house on a hillside in the West Virginia woods that Jordan Butcher cut his teeth as a rock-'n'-roll designer.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J. Barr |
01-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jordan Butcher, Tooth & Nail
