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Zeppelin or Not, No Quarter Doesn’t Just Preach to the Choirnew
The stage is their pulpit. And on it, in long, curly wigs, bell-bottomed jeans and chest-baring shirts, they become what they preach, mimicking note-for-note “Stairway to Heaven” and “When the Levee Breaks” the way Led Zeppelin would have played it.
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
01-29-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Anvil's Frontman Keeps on Rocking and Reelingnew
Anvil! The Story of Anvil, the film, sometimes characterized as a real-life This Is Spinal Tap, premiered at Sundance and served as the catalyst for rock's most unlikely comeback.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
01-28-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Discarded Album Revives Forgotten Chapter of Minneapolis Music Historynew
t all started with Shelley Pierce hunched over the vinyl bin at Cheapo. She had most of the albums she wanted, but enjoyed the thrill of the hunt. As she finished flipping through the new arrivals, a short, plump woman in her 50s came in the front door of the store, lugging a crate full of used vinyl records.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Emily Kaiser |
01-27-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Warning Lights' Latest Offering is a Tranquil Listening Experiencenew
Drew Haddon's follow-up to '07s Eternity Drones embraces the guerilla approach to loud, lo-fi and open-ended drone music that was once stifled by the academic imperialism of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lamonte Young and the likes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-26-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Further On, Warning Light
'In Search of Stoney Jackson' is a Return to True-School Rhythm and Soulnew
Stoney features a procession of newcomer MCs and old-school voices rhyming over backdrops of ghetto psychedelia. The resulting texture weaves samples from the '80s, '90s and now into an unrelenting groove that peppers classic cuts.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-26-2010 |
Reviews
Fahrenheit is An Accessible Yet Exploratory Brand of Crossover Jazz-Rocknew
Fahrenheit is Dan Nettles' strongest offering yet, loose and swinging while exhibiting all the modern, rock-influenced flourishes one might expect from a record by one of Nettles' better-known compatriots.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Gabe Vodicka |
01-26-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Kenosha Kid, Fahrenheit
Misconceptions Abound: Vampire Weekend's 'Contra'new
There are two rampant misconceptions about Vampire Weekend. One is that the group's music is Afro-pop, or has pretentions to be Afro-pop. The second is that it sucks. Neither is true.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ben Westhoff |
01-26-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Contra, Vampire Weekend
Will Dondria Have to Check Her Personality at the Door?new
What started with a $15 webcam and the simple idea to post YouTube vids of herself singing a cappella R&B covers turned into an Internet phenomenon after her rendition of Ciara's Promise garnered more than 1 million hits. That's when Jermaine Dupri came calling.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Rodney Carmichael |
01-26-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Internationals Give Virtue to Former Vicesnew
Jody Abernathy and Mark Mundy have been making music together since they were 14, more than two decades now. But they consider their latest work, featuring their new combo the Internationals, to be their greatest.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
01-26-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Two Atlanta Acts Hone Their Sound From the Outside Looking Innew
The Selmanaires' singer, guitarist and mini-Korg knob twiddler Herb Harris doesn't mince words as he shrugs his shoulders and exhales when asked about the divisive electronic sound of the Selmanaires' third, self-released CD Tempo Temporal.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-26-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Selmanaires, Tempo Temporal
The Honest Mistakes: 'Break Up'new
These are break-up songs, not particularly sad or mopey by any genre's standards, but the Honest Mistakes are soaking you in a whole lot of this: "Find a picture of your favorite friend, tonight/ take a look at it, as long as you can/ it might be the only thing you have left of them."
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
01-26-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Break Up, The Honest Mistakes
Born Again: The Beloved Sarah Jaffenew
For a few years, the 23-year-old Sarah Jaffe has been charming the pants off area audiences with her lost-in-the-world, building folk yarns, performing the types of shows that would cause lesser scribes to write things like "Jaffe sure took that crowd to church on Friday night!"
Dallas Observer |
Pete Freedman |
01-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Patti Smith on Christ, Cobain and Robert Mapplethorpenew
Twenty years after the death of her friend and lover, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, punk-rock pioneer Patti Smith has released Just Kids, her memoir of the couple's bohemian, hardly-fed days in late-'60s New York City.
Seattle Weekly |
Chris Kornelis |
01-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tooth & Nail’s Latest Cover Boy, a Grammy-Nominated Seattleitenew
Rural Appalachia is not generally regarded as a breeding ground for the arts, but it was in a house on a hillside in the West Virginia woods that Jordan Butcher cut his teeth as a rock-'n'-roll designer.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J. Barr |
01-25-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jordan Butcher, Tooth & Nail
Brooklyn's Clare and the Reasons Make Charmed Chamber Popnew
Clare Muldaur’s honey-sweet vocals and fanciful soundscapes may belie the sophistication of her compositions and her husband’s arrangements of brass, strings and woodwinds, but it’s that levity and wonder that make Clare and the Reasons so charming.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
01-22-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
