AltWeeklies Wire
Bob Dylan: 'Tempest'new
Time Out of Mind (1997) started the best chapter of Bob Dylan’s late career, thus setting a new, unbelievable standard for himself and his contemporaries — that of the rare legend who keeps getting better with time.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
09-16-2012 |
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Cat Power: 'Sun'new
There are a few things we've come to expect from Cat Power, indie rock's most reliably miserablist singer-songwriter this side of Elliott Smith. Suffice to say, when she caps her new electro-pop album with an 11-minute "I Wanna Live!" mantra ("Nothin' But Time") it's pretty goddamn shocking.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
09-16-2012 |
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Yeasayer: 'Fragrant World'new
With their third album, Brooklyn's Yeasayer prove once again that they have no interest in artistic stillness.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
08-30-2012 |
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Mixtura feat. Tito Nieves: "I Want You Back" (from Unity: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson, release TBA)new
The first single off the upcoming Michael Jackson salsa tribute is out — and it kills.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-23-2012 |
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Frank Zappa: 'You Are What You Is'new
Was that really Frank Zappa's face last week on the front page of the iTunes store? I couldn't believe my eyes.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-23-2012 |
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Tags: You Are What You Is
Incubus: 'Incubus HQ Live'new
To celebrate both the release of 2011’s If Not Now, When? (their first studio album in five years) and the fact they’ve been together for 20 years, Incubus invited its fans to six free, intimate nights at a storefront on La Brea in West Hollywood.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-16-2012 |
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Last Nighters: 'Animal Room'new
Animal Room, the debut LP by San Antonio’s Last Nighters, plays like something of a concise history of modern Southern indie music.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
08-16-2012 |
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Tags: Last Nighters
Joss Stone: 'The Soul Sessions Vol. 2'new
For someone so musically addicted to re-introductions, Joss Stone is pretty damn bad at them.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
08-16-2012 |
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Tags: Joss Stone
Crosby, Stills & Nash: 'CSN 2012 (Live)'new
Time hasn't been kind on CSN, judging by their first live performance in 20 years.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-16-2012 |
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Tags: Crosby, Stills & Nash
Bad Breaks: 'Bad Breaks'new
Bad Breaks really captures my attention at the moment of transition into "Seppuku," the album's second (and best) song.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
08-02-2012 |
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Los Texmaniacs: 'Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds'new
When it comes to condensing everything that's great about Tex-Mex into a CD that pleases both the people and academia, nobody does it better than the Texmaniacs and the Smithsonian.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-29-2012 |
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Public Enemy: 'Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear On No Stampnew
Despite their storied place in the hip-hop pantheon, it’s been a long time since Public Enemy has been relevant.
San Antonio Current |
M. Solis |
07-29-2012 |
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Sohns: 'Ripe/Rot' EPnew
Gloomy sounds of struggle and organ washes open up this EP from Sohns, a quartet of local racket-raisers, but it jumps right into some rewarding noise on track two, the wonderfully titled "Soul Train Blues of the Broken Skull."
San Antonio Current |
Leonard Pierce |
07-29-2012 |
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MTMTMK: 'The Very Best'new
The marriage of London-based production/DJ duo Radioclit and Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya, The Very Best has yielded both deeply soulful and intoxicatingly carefree moments through two mixtapes and one album before MTMTMK.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
07-27-2012 |
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Nas: 'Life is Good'new
Though universally considered one of the greats, Nas has worked, to some extent, in the shadow of Biggie and 2Pac since his rapturous emergence in 1994.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
07-27-2012 |
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