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20 Greatest Non-Hits by the Rolling Stonesnew
Everyone knows that the Rolling Stones are a bunch of greedy amoral bastards. (Pick your anecdote from rock lore to illustrate this fact.) The geezers keep flogging their fame into the 21st century, long past sell-by date of their flesh and musical inspiration. Do they need to tour and release more memoirs to make more millions? It hardly seems like it, yet they've been doing it for 50 years now, and they probably don't know what else to do with themselves.
New Haven Advocate |
John Adamian |
10-11-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Classic Rock, The Rolling Stones
Wilco Continues to Manage the Extremesnew
Wilco is a bit like America’s answer to Radiohead. The band is hugely popular, inspiring major-league fan adoration, loads of Internet documentation and speculation, and ample critical acclaim.
New Haven Advocate |
John Adamian |
04-06-2010 |
Music
Tags: Wilco
After Nearly 40 Years, Aztec Two-Step is Still The Onenew
Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman, the folk duo known as Aztec Two-Step, have been compared to another fairly acclaimed folk/pop twosome. The comparisons had become so pervasive that ATS recorded their album Time It Was: The Simon & Garfunkel Songbook as a tribute.
New Haven Advocate |
Brian Baker |
03-16-2010 |
Concerts
Sweet Harmonies (and Chicken Jokes) Come to Madisonnew
Modern pop-country music and traditional country music have little to nothing in common with each other. Thankfully, when the Sweetback Sisters play their own brand, it's based on the latter, superior version.
New Haven Advocate |
Mike Sembos |
02-09-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
They Might Be Giants Talk About Playing Shows for Kidsnew
"They're a really tough crowd to play for," says John Linnell. "It's not unusual for them to talk through a song. Or even talk while we're talking. They don't care about the social conventions that usually account for good manners at a show. And if we play a song they don't like, they will definitely let us know."
New Haven Advocate |
Peter Gerstenzang |
06-16-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Amadou & Mariam's 'Welcome to Mali'new
From start to finish, the mix of traditional instrumentation, classic rock sounds and forward-thinking clubby production on Welcome to Mali is seamless.
New Haven Advocate |
John Adamian |
04-21-2009 |
Reviews
Hard-Traveling, Well-Connected Emcee Big Stat Goes Solonew
It has been said that the road to success is a long and winding one. Connecticut emcee Big Stat has seen his fair share of obstacles on his, from the murder of his mother, when he was only 12 years old, to coming to the decision to dissolve the duo he spent the past half decade building.
New Haven Advocate |
Adam Bernard |
01-27-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Gregg Allman Talks Hammond, Tape and Shroomsnew
I've got Gregg Allman on the line and he's telling me a story about the time he and the rest of the Allman Brothers Band lived together and ate psilocybin tablets (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) every day for eight weeks.
New Haven Advocate |
Sean Corbett |
12-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Richard Lloyd Turns Off the Televisionnew
But Lloyd does still have plenty to say about the band and its other guitarist (and primary songwriter), Tom Verlaine.
New Haven Advocate |
Peter Gerstenzang |
11-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
My Brightest Diamond Smooths Some Rough Edgesnew
The push and pull between the classical conventions in which Shara Worden was schooled and her craving for rhythm informs this year's A Thousand Shark's Teeth, the second proper My Brightest Diamond album.
New Haven Advocate |
Brian LaRue |
10-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Steve Earle Talks Music, Politics and Addictionnew
Earle's resurrection after being released from jail in the mid-1990s is remarkable, and few would dispute that he is today one of the best songwriters in the world. And he always seasons his songs with powerful political messages that rise above the polemical.
New Haven Advocate |
Jim Motavalli |
09-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Laura Cantrell is Not the Least Bit Rock and Rollnew
Cantrell's path to a career in country was hardly straight, though her stint as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville was probably useful.
New Haven Advocate |
Jim Motavalli |
08-19-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Girl Talk Melds the Top 40 Hits You'd Never Dance to On Their Ownnew
Greg Gillis talks about his fans ("frat dudes like it, rap guys like it, rock guys like it"), quitting his day job as a biomedical engineer ("real cool"), and sampling culture ("I always understood sampling as an instrument").
New Haven Advocate |
Vivian Nereim |
04-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Whose Music, Anyway?new
Lessons from SXSW 2008 festival.
New Haven Advocate |
Andrew Iliff |
03-25-2008 |
Music
Fleshtones Frenzynew
Still uncoverted to superock? It's a perfect time to take a good look.
New Haven Advocate |
Christopher Arnott |
03-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Fleshtones
