AltWeeklies Wire
YACHT: Shangri-Lanew
YACHT's latest is more pop, and more of a party album, than 2009's See Mystery Lights, which was a bit more avant, a bit puckish.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
07-07-2011 |
Reviews
Violent Messagesnew
A professor at the University of Arizona is threatened after people opposed to TUSD's ethnic studies name him on a video.
Tucson Weekly |
Mari Herreras |
07-07-2011 |
Race & Class
Incompetent or Ingenious?new
Some volunteers in the failed recall of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer question the organizer's efforts
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
07-06-2011 |
Politics
Natural Cultivationnew
How Gardens and Villa grew into their lush California-inspired sound.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
07-06-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gardens and Villa
A New Perspectivenew
Arizona Between Nosotros encourages people to cross borders -- both artistic and international.
Tucson Weekly |
Mari Herreras |
07-06-2011 |
International
The Rosebuds: Loud Planes Fly Lownew
It's nothing new for a songwriter to turn a crumbling relationship into an album of cathartic reflection. But when the breakup involves both halves of one band, that album becomes a conversation.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
07-01-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: The Rosebuds
Arizona Burningnew
We know a recent fire in Southern Arizona was likely set by an man in distress. What do we know about the border's other fires?
Tucson Weekly |
Leo W. Banks |
06-30-2011 |
Disasters
Foster the People: Torchesnew
This Los Angeles band's name reminds me of a similarly-titled James Taylor song ("Shower the People"). But the shiny, insistent dance rhythms on its heralded full-length debut -- featured recently on that bastion of respectability, NPR -- will immediately hip listeners to the fact that this band has little to do with the venerable folk troubadour, except for endlessly catchy melodies.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Foster the People
It Ain't Easy ...new
'Green Lantern' melds a lame premise with lazy special effects.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
06-28-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Ryan Reynolds, Green Lantern 3D
Okkervil River: I Am Very Farnew
Will Sheff is operating on a higher plane these days. On Okkervil River's stunning I Am Very Far, Sheff revels in ambiguous and evocative imagery that keeps pace with inspired studio wizardry.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
06-27-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Okkervil River, Will Sheff
Cerebral yet Carnalnew
Titus Andronicus hopes to avoid pillow fights on this trip to Tucson.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
06-23-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Titus Andronicus
For the Right Listenersnew
Other Lives' 'Tamer Animals' is one of the richest indie-rock albums of 2011.
Tucson Weekly |
Staff |
06-23-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Other Lives
Dawes: Nothing Is Wrongnew
Thanks to acts such as The John Henrys and Truth and Salvage Co., reviving the 1970s-era Americana rock of The Band has almost become its own subgenre. Los Angeles-based Dawes adds a little Laurel Canyon vibe, evoking the spirits of Jackson Browne and Neil Young.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-22-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Dawes
The Black Lips Are True Entertainersnew
The Black Lips get just a little bit refined on the band's new album. Maybe. Just a little
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
06-16-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: black lips
Man Man: Life Fantasticnew
For a band that essentially occupies a niche -- the Beefheart, Zappa, Waits niche -- Philadelphia's Man Man circumvents the easy dip into parody or novelty by making memorable, swaggering music that is somehow simultaneously indebted and unique.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
06-16-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: man man
