AltWeeklies Wire
Lighting Upnew
Life for Matt Pond and his chamber-pop ensemble just bounces ahead.
Charleston City Paper |
Susan Kamenar |
02-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Last Light, Matt Pond PA
Enigmatic Bill Callahan Shifts from Smog to Solonew
After singing and strumming under the curious moniker Smog for nearly two decades, Callahan recently switched to his own name, following the 2005 release of A River Ain't Too Much to Love.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Leseman |
02-20-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bill Callahan
A VAST Improvementnew
Electro-rockers power down for mellow affair.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: VAST
Everything Old is New Againnew
Some Enchanted Evening finds Garfunkel covering pop standards, somewhat of a departure from his other work.
Charleston City Paper |
Andrea Warner |
02-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jojo Knows How To Have a Good Timenew
For piano-playing John "Jojo" Hermann, the Widespread Panic off-season just means an excuse to play front-man and book more intimate venues.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Jojo Hermann
Harmony At First Listennew
Dynamic husband-and-wife country duo shines brightly on American Songwriter Magazine's Winter Tour.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Wrights
Terence Blanchard Leads the Waynew
Using his music to help shed light on the entire Katrina tragedy, the horn player recently wrote and performed the music for director Spike Lee's highly acclaimed HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke. Then Blanchard went a step further by adding to the music used in Lee's film to create the recently released album, A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina).
Charleston City Paper |
Alan Sculley |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Coming Up Shortynew
Fame's fickle spotlight eluded Guitar Shorty for a good quarter-century, before rediscovering him the past few years.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Parker |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Guitar Shorty, We the People
Spin Doctors Frontman Seeks to Reconnectnew
The mixed commercial success of the Spin Doctors' recent albums and the band's perpetual love/hate relationship with themselves have influenced Chris Barron to record his first mainstream solo effort, Pancho and the Kid.
Charleston City Paper |
Josh Eboch |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The New Music Collective's New Project is a Strong Effortnew
These aren't tweedy types scoring self-serving masterpieces that will never be heard. The NMC aims to perform its work. In front of people. And those people, some of them devotees of the jam music scene with curious minds and open ears, seem to like it a lot.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Band of Horses Come Homenew
The opening guitar notes and soft cymbal splash creep up on you subtly, before Ben Bridwell's potent, reedy voice alights "Is There a Ghost" with its recurring pronouncement, "I could sleep, I could sleeee-eep."
Charleston City Paper |
Jeff Clark |
01-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Band of Horses, Cease to Begin
The Met Gets a Virtual Outletnew
For well over half a century now, we've been able to catch live radio broadcasts from New York's renowned Metropolitan Opera. But a recent high-tech update of that process has become the buzz of the opera world -- and it could well turn out to be one its saving graces.
Charleston City Paper |
Lindsay Koob |
01-09-2008 |
Music
Mike Farris: a Uniquely Redemptive Storynew
"When I'm playing music, it's like prayer," Farris says.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
01-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mike Farris, Salvation in Lights
Will Hoge: The Man Behind the Curtainsnew
For a guy who's spent two-thirds of each year for the last 10 on the road as a working musician, Will Hoge maintains a refreshing sense of humor about it all.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
12-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Draw the Curtains, Will Hoge
Top Albums of 2007new
Includes Galactic, Shannon Whitworth, Lindsay Holler & The Dirty Kids, and more.
Charleston City Paper |
Staff |
12-26-2007 |
Music
