AltWeeklies Wire
Home School of Rocknew
Dad's discipline drives SA's premier tweener metal band.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
03-19-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: evolution, Young Generation
HorrorPops' Psychobilly Noirnew
Danish expats reveling in the decadence of Hollywood.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
03-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: HorrorPops, Kiss Kiss Kill Kill
Flipping Their Whigsnew
Athens power trio builds a grassroots coalition of punks, metal-heads, and classic rockers.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
03-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Close Shavernew
How the pride of Waco survived his honky-tonk heart attack.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
02-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Billy Joe Shaver
Popular Sciencenew
Twelve years after the song "Popular" briefly gave them MTV popularity, Nada Surf is reaching a smaller, grassroots audience but has broadened its artistic canvas considerably.
San Antonio Current |
Francesca Camillo |
02-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Diffident Divanew
Joan Carroll is San Antonio's reluctant vocal virtuoso.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joan Carroll
Tulsa Timenew
Ludo reloads with another batch of theatrical, ambitious rock.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
02-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ludo, You’re Awful, I Love You
Miranda Lawnew
Four years after placing third on Nashville Star, 24-year-old Miranda Lambert is able to say, once and for all, that she’s glad she failed to win.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Apollo Missionnew
Valerie Fernandez takes her soulful pipes to legendary Harlem theater and emerges with new ambition.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Valerie Fernandez
World According to Gurfnew
Producing songwriters such as Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mary Gauthier, and Slaid Cleaves can be hard on a writer's ego.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
01-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Diamonds to Dust, Gurf Morlix
Art Garfunkel Knows Where He Standsnew
Although he admits he does not know what the future holds, the 66-year-old, carrot-fro'd crooner seems to realize he will never approach the pinnacle he once co-inhabited with Paul Simon from 1965 to 1970.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
01-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Garota do São Paulonew
Maria Rita, the daughter of Elis Regina, arguably Brazil’s greatest female singer, has always found ways to tastefully interpret and give new life to Spanish songs.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Maria Rita
Former Plimsoul Peter Case Soldiers Onnew
"I felt really naked, but it felt kind of dangerous. I was in a place with just 200 people in it -- the Plimsouls were playing to much bigger crowds -- all of a sudden I'm playing this smaller place acoustic. I liked that it added that kind of risk factor," says Case.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
12-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gloria Rios, Queen of Rocanrolnew
Where was Gloria Rios when I needed her ... When all I had was Freddy Fender to turn to for a South Texas, Spanish-language rock pioneer?
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
11-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gloria Rios
Taking the Sting Out of the '80s Biggest Rock Bandnew
The Police are to pop music what Sandy Koufax is to baseball, Rocky Marciano is to boxing, and Jim Brown is to football.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: police
