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A Mad Recipenew

Meet Mice Parade and its musical anagrams.

Tucson Weekly | Annie Holub | 03-01-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Mice Parade, Bem-Vinda Vontade

Obscenely Brilliantnew

Jackie-O Motherfucker fully embraces musical failure in the search for something new.

Willamette Week | Michael Byrn | 03-01-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Jackie-O Motherfucker

Oates & Hall?new

The world has relegated Oates to the position of Hall's sideman -- but next time you hear some meathead tearing down Oates, ask him why Hall's solo albums never set the charts ablaze.

Dig Boston | Jed Gottlieb | 03-01-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Hall & Oates

Ray Barretto, 1929–2006new

Latin music's most intellectual cat made sure we listened.

The Village Voice | Pablo Guzman | 03-01-2006 | Music

Hot Freaksnew

Man Man plays guitarless music that sounds like Mike Patton mating with Gogol Bordello -- naturally, this pisses a few people off.

Philadelphia City Paper | Andrew Parks | 02-28-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Man Man

Rocking Class Heroesnew

"The Two-Man Who" holds steady on the fringe.

Westword | Jason Heller | 02-28-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Swearing at Motorists

Hey, Hey, They're the Monkeysnew

Jaded rock hacks just love their monkeying around.

Philadelphia Weekly | Neil Ferguson | 02-27-2006 | Music

Tags: Arctic Monkeys

Everybody Understandsnew

Since workaday citizens need the ideal of the angst-ridden and suicidal artist, the scramble for a useable Smith is on.

Los Angeles CityBeat | Ron Garmon | 02-24-2006 | Music

Tags: Elliott Smith

Comfort in Songsnew

Zach Rogue has "given up the game of trying to be cool."

Seattle Weekly | Rachel Shimp | 02-22-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Rogue Wave

Tall Tale Storylinenew

A brief history of the amazing Lilys is told through frontman Kurt Heasley.

Philadelphia City Paper | Patrick Rapa | 02-17-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Lilys

Horror Hippiesnew

Animal Collective sounds like someone slipped a sheet of acid into the high school cafeteria's Kool-Aid right before music class.

Dig Boston | J. Bennett | 02-15-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Animal Collective

Celebrity Spinnew

Rock stars are not DJs -- but DJs are rock stars.

The Village Voice | Tricia Romano | 02-15-2006 | Music

It's not quite accurate to say there's no connection between the Bob Mould of the past few years and the one that sparked two great guitar trios, post-hardcore heroes Hüsker Du and alt-rock favorites Sugar.

Seattle Weekly | Michaelangelo Matos | 02-15-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Bob Mould