AltWeeklies Wire
Oh, You Brut!new
In a world of blog hysteria and terminal hipsterism, Art Brut kicks ass, takes names and gets naked -- it's about time.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott T. Sterling |
02-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Art Brut
Audience Contempt: Sounds Nicenew
After 20 years of making music -- both on his own and with his band, underground-favorites American Music Club -- Mark Eitzel is just as strange, self-deprecating and busy as ever.
Dig Boston |
Jed Gottlieb |
02-08-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mark Eitzel
Philadelphia Freedomnew
Robert Skoro explores all the angles of pop songwriting.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-01-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Robert Skoro
Listening in Real Timenew
This year's Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll pits eclectic neoclassicism versus childhood-oriented avant-primitivism as global warming swamps our history.
The Village Voice |
Robert Christgau |
02-01-2006 |
Music
Looking for Blind Joe Deathnew
Earthly appetites: The brilliant and curious career of steel-string demigod John Fahey.
The Village Voice |
Andy Beta |
02-01-2006 |
Music
Tags: John Fahey
Almost Famous, Againnew
On the heels of the success of Colin Meloy's new band, the Decemberists, Kill Rock Stars releases "Omnibus," featuring everything you ever wanted to hear from Tarkio, Meloy's little Missoula band that almost could.
Missoula Independent |
Skylar Browning |
01-30-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
They Ain't Saying Shitnew
By not really paying attention to much else outside of what they do, the Walkmen have kept themselves worth paying attention to -- and for a band that dwells in the perpetual promotional din of NYC, that’s saying a lot.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
01-25-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Walkmen
Seventies Glam-Disco Partynew
Of Montreal proves there's life, funk and creativity after Elephant 6.
Houston Press |
Scott Faingold |
01-24-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Of Montreal, The Sunlandic Twins
Contort Yourselfnew
They have a new label and a new album, but they're the same old Conformists.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
01-23-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Conformists, Three Hundred
Cows, Roses, Geese and Speechnew
Armed with microphones, patches and processors, M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel, the two halves of the odd brain that is Matmos, have repeatedly demonstrated they can pull music from pretty much anything.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
01-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Matmos
Not A Bad First Draftnew
Editors play instantly familiar hand-wringing, doomsday dance-rock with pants-off disco beats, throat-slashing ninja guitars and a bass archer firing off sexy groove darts like Gay Cupid in too much eyeliner.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
01-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Editors
True Gritsnew
The Gossip's Beth Ditto is cooking with meat -- and mixing riot grrrl gospel with punk rock panache.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
01-18-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Top O the Mourning
Though there are plenty of potentially bright, brisk sounds thrown in, the results don't often come across that way on this disc.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Dempsey |
01-13-2006 |
Reviews
Winning Enthusiasmnew
This Brooklyn trio doesn't reinvent the wheel, but its debut album has its charms.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
01-12-2006 |
Reviews
Toon Tunesnew
Puffy AmiYumi, the Japanese pop group that Japanese punk-rockers are allowed to like, want to be taken seriously as rock musicians.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
01-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
