AltWeeklies Wire
Local Acts Come Close to Real Thingnew
Ever since Bob Dylan inaugurated the era of the singer-songwriter, most pop acts write their own material. But some local musicians are finding great success in playing the songs of other, more famous artists.
Isthmus |
Kenneth Burns |
02-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hugh Masekela: The Horn of Africanew
The trumpeter plays the people's music.
Isthmus |
Susan Kepecs |
01-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hugh Masekela
Mainstream Pop Worked its Magic in '07new
To be honest, I thought my susceptibility to commercial music had faded long ago. Boy, was I wrong.
Paquito D'Rivera: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Saxnew
D'Rivera has countless albums (and nine Grammys) under his belt, but Funk Tango is his baby -- his first self-produced CD.
Isthmus |
Susan Kepecs |
11-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Funk Tango, Paquito D'Rivera
It's Showtime for Pale Young Gentlemennew
The Madison indie group turns rock into theater.
Isthmus |
Tom Laskin |
11-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pale Young Gentlemen
Cornmeal With Jamnew
Like the String Cheese Incident and the Yonder Mountain String Band, Chicago's Cornmeal brings elements of traditional bluegrass to a jam-rock style.
Isthmus |
Rich Albertoni |
11-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cornmeal, Feet First
Name that Band!new
The stories behind Madison's strangest pop monikers.
Tally Hall Turns on the Charmnew
The band plays quirky indie-pop that embraces everything from calypso to rap to synth-rock to ballads.
Isthmus |
Rich Albertoni |
10-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tally Hall
Roundtable: The Digital Reality of Musicnew
Five Madison-area musicians talk about how they use the internet to promote, sell and even pen their music in the MySpace age.
Imperial Teen Seems Sadly Befuddled by Agenew
The Hair is an odd instance of emotional posturing from a band that was once brutally honest about sexuality.
The Treats Proves That Engineers Can Rocknew
The Madison band's members use their engineering skills as a framework for constructing songs.
Isthmus |
Rich Albertoni |
09-11-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Treats
Susanna Hoffs' Eternal Flamenew
The Bangles' lead vocalist carries the torch for '60s pop.
Isthmus |
Rich Albertoni |
08-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Bangles
Coy Humor Carries Art Brut Only So Farnew
The tongue-in-cheek songs on It's A Bit Complicated give new meaning to the phrase "that was funny the first time."
Tags: Art Brut, It's A Bit Complicated
Music 2004
2004's music was about everything but singers and songs.
