AltWeeklies Wire
Dan Deacon: Total Smarty Partynew
The Baltimore composer cleary gets the most high-minded concepts of electronic music, experimental composition and all points in between.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
05-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Deacon
This is Mother 13new
Superchunk's Jon Wurster has got a brand new gag.
Tags: Corey Harris's Mother 13
Z'EV: Precious Mettlesnew
The sound artist has had a long, lonely path to innovation.
INDY Week |
Chris Toenes |
05-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Z'EV
The Avett Brothersnew
Keeping honest, even with festival crowds.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
05-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Avett Brothers
Worms, Mud, Bodies, Rootsnew
CocoRosie talks about heading to southern France to record their latest album in a "misty, dreary old farm."
INDY Week |
Brian Howe |
05-03-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: CocoRosie
This Will Do Just Finenew
Led constantly by the mercurial Herod through frequent line-up shifts, The Comas have been looking for their identity since sometime around 1998 -- they may have finally found one.
Don't Shake Our Treenew
The Rosebuds locks itself at home and emerges with its most extroverted album yet.
INDY Week |
Chris Parker |
04-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Rosebuds
Kaleidoscopic Psychedelics & Sundried Melancholynew
This Chapel Hill five-piece doesn't try to hide the fact that they live for guitars.
Tags: *SONS, Viracochas
No Future Festival: A Subjective Music Experiencenew
Noise is, by its definition, a pejorative term, but in the last three decades, the term has been claimed, conquered and owned by a worldwide music community.
Nice Guys Finishnew
Hunter MacDermut doesn't like to talk about the solo acoustic music he makes as The Tourist -- he just likes to play it.
INDY Week |
Ruth Eckles |
04-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Tourist
Beat Up Punknew
Antelope -- the new trio from ex-El Guapo guitarist Justin Moyer -- is a staple of the evolving Dischord meme, and like most of the Dischord pop bands, they share punk's embrace of directness and concision.
INDY Week |
Jack McDonald |
03-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Antelope
Southern Culture on the Skids & Heads on Sticksnew
These Southern iconoclasts have nailed the possum to the wall: Nobody captures the tragedy of upscale downward mobility better than Southern Culture on the Skids. Also reviewed: Heads on Sticks' The Pamphleteer.
Making a MASS-todonnew
Atlanta, Ga.'s Mastodon has perfected a brand of more-is-more heavy metal that bowls barriers and defies categorization in a genre that thrives on fine print and substrata.
INDY Week |
Robbie Mackey |
02-22-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bu Hanan: Don't Hold Backnew
An emerging North Carolina music collective thrives on collaborative criticism.
Persistence in a Bottlenew
It took almost 20 years and eight albums, but The Bottle Rockets frontman Brian Henneman finally did it: He made the album he wanted to make.
INDY Week |
Rick Cornell |
01-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Bottle Rockets
