AltWeeklies Wire
Full Spectrum: Guillermo Scott Herren Takes on All Musics as Prefuse 73new
A flurry of new work’s set for the coming year. And only Herren knows where Prefuse 73 will go next. Maybe old will become new again. Or maybe Herren’s explorations haven’t totally satisfied him and future projects are slated to sate his curious nature.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
01-23-2013 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Prefuse 73
Anarchy in the Midwestnew
The story of The Gizmos, a collection of hard-rock dudes and Creem-reading drug punks who honed in on the most transgressive elements of adolescent America.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
12-21-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
One of the Last of the Coltrane Sidemen is not in a Talking Moodnew
There aren't too many folks left who played with John Coltrane.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
12-12-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cedar Walton
Larry Coryell gets haughty about his skills ... and rightly so.new
Some players willfully flout convention, bounding from one genre to the next. Guitarist Larry Coryell didn’t set out to play garage, psych, jazz and fusion. He’s just kept good company over almost fifty years in music.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
12-04-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Larry Coryell
Monkish Moans and Skittering Guitarnew
Inside Chicago's Mako Sica's international stew of rock, jazz and noise.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
10-11-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mako Sica
Transcontinental Dub: Sun Araw’s Cameron Stallones Occupies the Crossroad of Disparate Soundsnew
Grafting a unique culture—whether it’s Rasta ideology or Appalachian entertainment—onto an art music spans genre and land mass, resulting in the disintegration of boundaries and the emergence of something ultimately unique.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
09-24-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Smif-n-Wessun: Re-Enta da Stagenew
Smif-n-Wessun's Bucktown has undergone significant gentrification over the last decade. And the cultural exchange at work there's important for the advancement of art.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
07-20-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Funky Soul of Memphis: Booker T. Jones is Backnew
It’s a big story and only getting bigger. The spate of international touring Booker T has in his future will likely take him down some new roads, thoroughfares a kid from Memphis could have never dreamed he’d travel.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
06-25-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Improvising, Not Compromisingnew
Why Joe McPhee's forty-year journey keeps coming back to Chicago.
Chicago Newcity |
Dave Cantor |
06-13-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
New York's Longwave Just Wants to Have Funnew
It's a surprise just to hear how much Longwave has changed since the days of its 2001 debut Endsongs, when the band was stylistically lumped into the New York scene with emerging garage-rock superstars The Strokes, but the bigger surprise might be that this record exists at all.
Chicago Newcity |
Andy Seifert |
12-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Longwave, Secrets are Sinister
Kanye West Experiences '808s and Heartbreak'new
West's major achievement here is not in the moments of significant pop-song creativity, but rather the response he's able to get from his listener, the lasting effect that, if previously pondered, seemed a substantially distant possibility.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
12-03-2008 |
Reviews
Austin's The Sword Worships the 'Gods of the Earth'new
When a band titles its debut Age of Winters and follows it up with a record called Gods of the Earth, the road's pretty much been paved for the kind of meal you're to be served. The dueling guitars, meaty, brimming with confidence, attack from all sides.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
11-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gods of the Earth, The Sword
Sweden's Dungen Can Count to '4'new
Dungen's latest sees lead singer/songwriter/producer Gustav Ejstes continuing to blend genres while abandoning some of the reverb that allowed its previous releases to sound straight off some late-1960s Brit-rock vinyl.
Chicago Newcity |
Andy Seifert |
10-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Crooked Fingers' Eric Bachmann Talks 'Forfeit/Fortune'new
Bachmann decided to release Forfeit/Fortune himself, and while he is using internet outlets such as iTunes, the record's only available at specifically chosen indie retailers, not the big-box stores the masses might look to first. He insists he's just being practical.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
10-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Crooked Fingers, Forfeit/Fortune
Portland's Talkdemonic Gets Darkernew
The easiest way to take the pressure of writing a catchy hook off of yourself is to not write any hooks at all. Talkdemonic has crafted three records of short, punchy songs, most of them under three minutes, that almost never feature repeating parts.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
10-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Talkdemonic, Eyes at Half Mast
