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Mute Math's Spirited Strugglenew
Mute Math survived a tangle with a major label and played their rock their way.
Charleston City Paper |
Alan Sculley |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mute Math
The Otherworldy Celebrationnew
Hovering from an atmospheric blend of sensual Goth-pop, orchestrated dance-rock, and analog keyboard noise, Baltimore band Celebration manage to blast out some unusual sounds.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Celebration, The Modern Tribe
Avett Brothers Still Bring Itnew
On Emotionalism, the band's latest release (and tenth since forming in 2000), they hint at their hard-rocking, pre-Avetts history, with Scott pulling out his electric Guild S100 to get crunchy in the closing minutes of "Pretty Girl from Chile."
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Avett Brothers, Emotionalism
The Edward Scissorhands for South Carolinanew
Pearl Fryar's cavernous voice is a major reason this big-screen profile of the Bishopville, S.C., topiary artist is appealing.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
Cynthia Hill Examines the Plight of Low-paid Field Handsnew
In The Guestworker, the closest Hill gets to editorializing is juxtaposing images of a farmer eating a family meal in his house with those of the guestworkers' shoddier living conditions.
Charleston City Paper |
Nick Smith |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Cyntha Hill, The Guestworker
'Force of Nature' Captures the Difficuluty of Installation Artnew
The 144-page hardcover book about the groundbreaking exhibit of the same name, Force of Nature chronicles the exuberance of the 10 Japanese artists who visited the Carolinas last year to make site installations.
Charleston City Paper |
Nick Smith |
10-10-2007 |
Nonfiction
The Robert Cray Band's Magicnew
On stage, the chemistry among guitarist/singer Cray, keyboardist Jim Pugh, drummer Kevin Hayes, and bassist Karl Sevareid is both blatantly obvious and seemingly spontaneous and effortless.
Charleston City Paper |
Alan Sculley |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Meet the Monksnew
South Carolina-based Modern Day Monks recorded its debut at the Fusion Five Studio facility by Jordan Herschaft and fellow audio engineer Jeff Leonard -- both of whom have recently established the new label Indie Records.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Modern Day Monks
Chef Bob Waggoner Releases Cookbooknew
When Charleston Grill's Waggoner was first pitched the idea of publishing his own cookbook three years ago, it took some convincing to get him on board. "I did not want to produce a book full of tough recipes," he says.
Charleston City Paper |
Cynthia Groseclose |
10-10-2007 |
Food+Drink
David Sedaris Is Taking Notesnew
While we're still months away from pulling out our Christmas tree, David Sedaris is sitting at his home in Paris, wrapping presents. The popular humorist will be stateside for a month as he tours the country with nightly readings of fresh material with his notoriously nasal, yet powdered delivery.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
10-03-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Sedaris, NPR
Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Really the Next Hitler?new
By creating a new bogeyman and ignoring common sense, our leaders are consciously constructing a scenario that might serve as a pretext to justify invading Iran.
Charleston City Paper |
Jack Hunter |
10-03-2007 |
Commentary
Tags: Iran
PS3 Games Finally Take Advantage of Controllernew
In last year's lead-up to the release of the PlayStation 3, Sony unexpectedly announced that their new console's SixAxis controller would feature motion-sensor capability, just like Nintendo's wacky Wiimote. Some programmers get it, and some just don;t.
Charleston City Paper |
Aaron R. Conklin |
09-27-2007 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
'The Kingdom' Offers a Smackdownnew
It seems like a Hollywood blockbuster, but Peter Berg's latest induces a bit of shaming about cycles of hate and violence that we must be fully cognizant of if we're ever to break them.
Charleston City Paper |
Maryann Johanson |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Peter Berg, The Kingdom
Cowby Jack Clement's Pre-YouTube Clipsnew
Like your crazy uncle with the Super-8 camera, Cowboy Jack Clement's "home movies" capture decades of himself and his crew in all their goofy glory that the undocumented life is just not worth living.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
The Next Alison Krauss?new
Shannon Whitworth may have a harder time shaking that moniker off than "formerly of the Biscuit Burners." But the Brevard, N.C.,-based songwriter and banjo player's music is as strong in her newly blossomed solo career as ever.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
09-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: No Expectations, Shannon Whitworth
