AltWeeklies Wire
The Roots: Undunnew
The Roots have delivered increasingly poignant and thematically focused records on life's trials. undun, their 13th album, is their most emotive, urgent, and (at less than 40 minutes) brief work.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
How Jennifer Espinoza Became Freddie Mercurynew
Like many younger Queen fans her age, Jennifer was turned on after watching Wayne's World.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-22-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Live & Local: Mitch Webb and the Swindlesnew
Midway through Mitch Webb's set at Salute, a guy opened the door, took a quick look inside, grabbed his head in amazement, and left. I couldn't hear what he said, but I could read his lips: "Damn!"
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-08-2011 |
Reviews
Trip the Light: Fantastic EPnew
This album is further proof that we live in a time when all genres bleed, where the experimental indie rock of Panda Bear heavily borrows the music theory of '90s trance, two styles once thought to be in different hemispheres.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-08-2011 |
Reviews
Maria Rita: Elonew
Four-time Latin Grammy winner Maria Rita is not only the daughter of the late Elis Regina (arguably Brazil's greatest singer ever) and legendary pianist/composer Cesar Camargo Mariano — she's a star on her own, and deservedly so.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-08-2011 |
Reviews
The Black Keys: El Caminonew
Have the Black Keys been making the same record for the last 10 years?
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
12-08-2011 |
Reviews
Mickey Moonlight: And The Time Axis Manipulation Corporationnew
This album is branded as the score for your favorite college parties.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-08-2011 |
Reviews
Pillow Talk: Faux Furnew
There's no shortage of country/Americana acts coming out of Saytown, with a few trying to appropriate the indie label to cut away from the pack.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-02-2011 |
Reviews
A Very Latin Christmasnew
Those who know me know that I'm no Christmas person. So when Henry Brun gave me his own Christmas album to review, I smiled politely and thought to myself, "Crap."
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-02-2011 |
Reviews
Supervielle: Rêverienew
Luciano Supervielle's second solo album, Rêverie, brilliantly sequences live and studio recordings to spin a concert that is almost symphonic in scope, but the French-Uruguayan composer (and keyboardist for Bajofondo) draws his tonal pictures from a small group of instrumentalists who speak jazz, tango, and rock fluently with the sweet accents of the Río de la Plata.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
12-02-2011 |
Reviews
The Wrath of Zeusnew
San Antonio rapper Carlton Zeus is no stranger to controversy.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
11-30-2011 |
Music
The Rolling Stones: Some Girlsnew
The Rolling Stones' last perfect album arrived at a crossroads for the band. They were coming off a string of disappointing albums in the wake of Exile on Main St., their greatest achievement, and, in a turn of the tides lost on no one, disco had replaced rock 'n' roll on the radio in the summer of 1978.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
11-30-2011 |
Reviews
Chris Cornell: Songbooknew
Grunge veteran Chris Cornell just can't be stopped. After calling it quits with Soundgarden in 1997 and Audioslave in 2007, a reunion Soundgarden tour, and slew of solo shows, he's released Songbook, a three-part EP with tracks taken from the best hits of his career to date.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Anne Salinas |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
The Essential Phil Spectornew
Ever since a 17-year-old Spector produced his own composition, "To Know Him Is To Love Him," for the Teddy Bears in 1958, record production has never been the same.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
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Bryan Hamilton: Welcome to Dreamlandnew
Local producer Bryan Hamilton has described Welcome to Dreamland as a "bunch of angels talking to each other.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
