AltWeeklies Wire
Butch Walker Rises From the Ashesnew
Butch Walker's music has grown more nuanced, and he's also grown quite successful as a pop producer -- think Katy Perry, Avril, Pink, The Academy Is and so on.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
03-16-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Serious Guitars in the Airnew
Later this month, the Santa Barbara Symphony presents a citywide International Guitar Festival, a grand tradition begun two years ago and bigger and better the second time around.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Josef Woodard |
03-16-2009 |
Music
Manilow Buries Christopher Cross, Rick Astley, and the 1980snew
There's nothing ironic about the crooner's latest covers collection.
Seattle Weekly |
Mike Seely |
03-16-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Six Hours of St. Patrick's Day Musicnew
This Pogues box set will ensure no one ever questions your Irish sympathies.
Jackson Free Press |
Rob Hamilton |
03-13-2009 |
Reviews
LiveNation Battles Neighbors Over Big Concertsnew
LiveNation is re-envisioning the landmark landscape of San Francisco's Nob Hill to include a more regularly booked concert hall.
The 'It' Factor of the Wong Boysnew
Hailing from the land of Lego and blue cheese, the Wong Boys are a pair of Danish music-scene vets who "talk punk and walk rave," as they put it, which essentially means they bang out obtuse, ass-kick electro-pop that's rank, dank, raunchy and stupid in an exceptionally clever manner.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
03-13-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: electronic music, The Wong Boys
Dave Gossage and the Annual Saint Patrick's Mindwarpnew
Known to local Celtic music buffs as Montreal's most prominent pied piper, and to a recent influx of young Irish pub-goers as "flute guy," Hurley's and Old Dublin mainstay Dave Gossage is one of Montreal's go-to musical performers when it comes to traditional Irish and Scottish reels and jigs.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
03-13-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Neko Case's 'Middle Cyclone'new
On Middle Cyclone, Neko Case is a more assured songwriter, having buried the struggle with her slightly skewed romantic tendencies, even if the word "love" happens to crop up occasionally.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
03-12-2009 |
Reviews
U2's 'No Line on the Horizon'new
No Line on the Horizon follows big, time-tested U2 themes--The Edge's crystalline guitars against Bono's lyrics of love and hope.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
03-12-2009 |
Reviews
Serrated Lyrical Edge: Elvis Perkins in Dearlandnew
With Dearland, Elvis Perkins leaves behind any resemblance to the quirky indie-folk acts he was sometimes compared to, broadening his vocal range and attack.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-12-2009 |
Reviews
Larkin Grimm Uses Music to Express Her Different Way of Seeing the Worldnew
Larkin Grimm is an amazingly talented singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose raw, dynamic and sometimes hallucinatory songs effectively communicate a perspective unlike anyone else's.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
03-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Husband-and-Wife Duo Discover that Working from Home Can Greatly Increase Productivitynew
Having their own studio separate from their house, but still at home, allowed Viva Voce to live their lives without dealing with the gigantic wad of cables.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
03-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
S.A. X SXSWnew
Thirteen Alamo City acts are featured at Austin's biggest fest this year.
San Antonio Current |
San Antonio Current |
03-11-2009 |
Music
10 Emo Songs That Don't Sucknew
Though most emo is rightfully reviled by anyone who isn't a teenager with a ridiculous haircut, there have been plenty of amazing songs released in the past 10 years or so that are, nonetheless, quintessentially emo. Those songs, and the bands who recorded them, deserve their due.
Phoenix New Times |
Martin Cizmar |
03-10-2009 |
Music
Tags: indie rock, emo music
R&B Queen Erykah Badu's Egyptian Mystiquenew
Mystical, mysterious Dallas native Erykah Badu is one of the leading ladies of neo-soul, and she reached full cosmic fruition with last year's politically charged, simmeringly funky New Amerykah Vol. 1: Fourth World War. With Vol. 2 due this spring, she broke it down from her house in South Dallas last week.
Houston Press |
Chris Gray |
03-10-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
