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Laura Veirs Gets Excited for Summernew
Classic finger-picking and Laura Veirs' girly vocals characterize the feather-light songs she's written about sweet summer days on her seventh album, July Flame.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amber Schadewald |
03-10-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: July Flame, laura veirs
Rodrigo y Gabriela Strum and Pluck with Extreme Originalitynew
Rodrigo y Gabriela could have been just another heavy metal garage band from Mexico City and you'd never have heard of them. But a fateful decision to sell their equipment and buy nylon-string guitars and plane tickets to Ireland changed everything.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
03-10-2010 |
Concerts
T-Model Ford Makes an Unannounced Stop Through Townnew
T-Model Ford is an old Mississippi Delta curiosity and a holdover from the early days of Fat Possum Records, an Oxford, Mississippi label originally formulated as a platform for a dying breed of blues — old, mostly African-American men with inscrutable relationships with their out-of-tune guitars.
C-Ville Weekly |
Andrew Cedermark |
03-10-2010 |
Music
How Dancing Desert Stars Informed YACHT's New Albumnew
“YACHT is not a cult,” reads the mission statement of the electronically inclined Portland, Oregon pop duo, who perhaps protest too much. They have a philosophy, a belief system, followers, mystical symbols, a grand council (the YACHT Trust) and a work method that involves trance states
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
03-07-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: YACHT, See Mystery Lights
Xiu Xiu Pulls Off the Theatrical, Self-Loathing Thing Pretty Wellnew
Look past the twittering electronic blips and beeps on Xiu Xiu’s latest record and you find some pretty heavy, caked-on, manic-depressive drama (not to mention just plain batshit-crazy weirdness).
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
03-05-2010 |
Reviews
The Fidgety Sound, the Sudden Change-Ups: This is Why You Love Quasinew
The fidgety sound, the sudden change-ups: This is why you love Quasi.
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
03-05-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: American Gong, Quasi
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
The Static Minds' 'Rich Girl Blues'new
Here, on the debut 7" from Raleigh quartet The Static Minds, there are two. A-side reasoning: She's too busy being rich and, memorably put, "dying in her own bad taste." B-side reasoning: She's too busy being a bore.
Tags: Rich Girl Blues, The Static Minds
Midlake Respectfully Makes its Way Forward Though Art-Rock's Pastnew
"I think one reason why we're so drawn to the '70s is that it's sort of the last time we had a big crossroads — where music could have gone in a lot of different directions."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
03-04-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Lords of Altamont Are All About the Rock 'n' Rollnew
When the Los Angeles band Lords of Altamont began about a decade ago, they set out to strike a balance between purist garage-rock traditions and a heavier hard-rock sound.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
03-03-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
NOVO Festival Gathers Up Baltimore's Most Speechless Artistsnew
When's the last time you described a band as "instrumental"--as in, the first thing that comes to mind about whatever you're listening to?
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
03-02-2010 |
Concerts
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
James Harman, the Genuine Articlenew
This veteran singer, songwriter, harp player and self-described wise guy is certainly the genuine article when it comes to blues and roots music. Born and raised in the blues heartland of Alabama, Harman adopted at an early age the sounds of black musicians he heard on jukeboxes and the radio.
Pasadena Weekly |
John Sollenberger |
03-01-2010 |
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
