AltWeeklies Wire
Air Apparents Zero 7 Veer Away from Their Downtempo Rootsnew
Five years after being described by Rolling Stone as "Air without irony," Zero 7's Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker are still amazed by the persistence of comparisons to the French electronica duo.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
12-03-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chill-Out, Eska, Henry Binns, Martha Tilston, Sam Hardaker, Simple Things, Yeah Ghost, Zero 7, Air
Converge Reaches for Diversitynew
Axe to Fall aims to recapture a bit of the profoundly alien sensibility and weird terror that consistently puts 2001's Jane Doe at the top of any metalhead/punker's desert-island disc list.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
12-02-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Axe To Fall, Converge
Quiet, Melancholy Moods of Orenda Finknew
Now based in Los Angeles, the ex-Azure Ray singer/guitarist recorded her second solo full-length in her old basement in Omaha, Neb., and the modest 8-track approach doesn't hurt the sonic quality.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
12-02-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Ask the Night, Orenda Fink
Yellow Fever's Retro Beach-Blanket Partynew
This little duo from Austin, Texas, is all about reviving the spirit of stripped-down, '60s California garage on their debut.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
12-02-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Yellow Fever
Hawthorne Heights Brings Back Screamnew
Hawthorne Heights moves on from the death of Casey Calvert with a new record label.
Tucson Weekly |
Linda Ray |
12-02-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hawthorne Heights, Skeletons
Undeniably Listenable Weezernew
Even if you've always found Weezer irksome, you can't deny the pleasures of Raditude.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
12-02-2009 |
Reviews
New Vistas Ahead for Rammsteinnew
With its sixth studio album, Liebe Ist Für Alle Da, Berlin's Rammstein once again delves into a morbid sonic realm of disaffection, chaos and torture with 11 industrial-metal tracks.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
12-02-2009 |
Reviews
Tags: Liebe Ist Für Alle Da, Rammstein
Fanfarlo's Acoustic Alchemynew
The special blend leads to deeply textured and layered songs.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
12-02-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Found: Betty Davis' Lost Masterpiecenew
Davis railed against the male-dominated industry, while playing the come-hither, power-wielding goddess who stirs libidos everywhere. Far ahead of the social norms, Davis presented herself unflinchingly as a complex black woman who could not be held down.
Tags: Is It Love or Desire, Betty Davis
Evol Intent Ruptures the Walls of Drum 'n' Bassnew
These three guys originally from Atlanta produce and play galvanic, kinetically de-tuning, glitch-hop-tinged drum 'n' bass, influenced by everyone from N.W.A. to Squarepusher. And they are popular in a genre that doesn't get much press but that is loyal and long-running.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tony Ware |
12-01-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Earthless taps the spirit of classic Krautrock, Brit-blues and Japanese psych-rocknew
Mario Rubalcaba figures he's been with more than a dozen bands — he is, after all, a drummer — but that Earthless is the one he was meant for.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
11-30-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
No Subject is Sacred for Vic Chesnutt, Including JFK's Sexploitsnew
All great artists are misunderstood in one way or another. When Vic Chesnutt is considered at all, it's often as a tragic figure whose past missteps continue to haunt him. But throughout his work a salty sense of humor can be found alongside much tenderness, rage, and self-doubt.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J. Barr |
11-30-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Baltimore's Rapdragons Smoke Up and Breathe Firenew
"This band could never have started on some Craigslist thing like 'Hey, do you wanna play music?'" says Nick Often about Rapdragons, the hip-hop duo he co-founded with Greg Ward earlier this year. "It's really out of the fact that we're friends, that's what feeds it."
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
11-24-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rapdragons, Ten Stories High
Kim Deal Talks About the Pixies' 'Doolittle' Anniversary Tournew
"I like albums and I’m kind of a geek anyway, so starting something from the beginning and then doing every song in order is appealing to me."
New York Press |
Adam Rathe |
11-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Samuel James Takes the Blues Storytelling Tradition into a New Eranew
"I was always a writer, you know, and my father's a fantastic storyteller. I'm sort of a culmination of his upbringing, I suppose."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
11-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
