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The Decemberists: The King is Deadnew
The King is Dead is a concise collection of straightforward Americana-tinged rock.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
02-07-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: The Decemberists, The King is Dead
Angel’s Sonsnew
After 17 Years, Sevendust are just happy to be here.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Coronado |
02-04-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sevendust
Slash on GNR, Lemmy, & Why San Antonio is a Great Rock Townnew
Slash, the former guitarist for Guns N’Roses, Slash’s Snakepit, and Velvet Revolver, spoke to the Current‘s Enrique Lopetegui from his home in L.A.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-21-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Deerhoof: 'Deerhoof vs. Evil'new
Deerhoof have always been something of an art-rock superhero team, and with their 11th LP, the excellently named Deerhoof vs. Evil, they’re making it their mission to crush evil with their 1-2-3 punch of twee vocals, guitar pyrotechnics, and rapid-fire stylistic shifts.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
01-21-2011 |
Reviews
Smith Westerns: Dye it Blondenew
The Smith Westerns have youthful indie panache sure to get your loafers twitching, complete with catchy guitar riffs and sweet lyrics.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
01-20-2011 |
Reviews
Monotonix: Not Yetnew
The sophomore release from these Israeli maniacs wears its ragged heart on its sweaty sleeve.
San Antonio Current |
Nicholas Hall |
01-20-2011 |
Reviews
Social Distortion: Hard Times and Nursery Rhymesnew
After a hiatus of more than six years, L.A.’s Social Distortion returns another incarnation of their signature twangy-but-ever-magnanimous rock ’n’ roll to patiently waiting fans.
San Antonio Current |
Francesca Camillo |
01-20-2011 |
Reviews
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals: "III/IV"new
Unlike the laid back, singer-songwriter exercise Easy Tiger, most of III/IV’s songs turn up the volume and swerve into post-punk and classic-rock territories.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
01-14-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Ryan Adams
Cake: Showroom of Compassionnew
Grunge may be dead, but Cake is still alive, serving up their first album of originals since 2004’s Pressure Chief.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-14-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Cake
Dirty Dozen's Fight to Stay Relevant Echoes Their Hometown's Strugglesnew
If there’s anything post-Katrina that New Orleanians have come to value, it’s stability, familiarity, and tradition. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band have kept these concepts deep within their grooves for more than three decades, but the musical tradition is much older.
San Antonio Current |
Nicholas Hall |
02-03-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Nine Minutes With Exene Cervenka of L.A. Punk Band Xnew
On January 5, I had the odd pleasure of a telephone interview with Exene Cervenka, lead singer of the quintessential Los Angeles punk band X. Founded in 1977, X combined poetic lyrics with rockabilly arrangements and eerie harmonies to create a sound no one had ever heard before.
San Antonio Current |
Bryan Rindfuss |
01-20-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Los Cenzontles, a Group at the Cutting Edge in Latin Musicnew
I find it particularly sad and absurd that a band like California’s Los Cenzontles (sehn-SONT-less, Spanish for “mockingbirds”), except for a private event here in 1995, are busier and more appreciated in Scotland and Ireland than they are in San Antonio.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-06-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
For Slayer, 30 is the New 666new
It's hard to imagine, but Slayer -- hailed as one of the greatest metal bands of all time -- is quickly approaching 30.
San Antonio Current |
Josh Fernandez |
08-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Otep Loves Younew
A few weeks ago, Otep Shamaya logged into her Facebook account and sent a message to a fan’s sister, a stranger, wishing her a happy birthday.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Handerson |
08-06-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cartographers Get By With a Little Help from Their Friendsnew
The lyrics for every Cartographers song, personal or poetic as they sound, begin as "placeholders," Jackson Albracht says, strung together to chain all those chord changes into songs, coherent musically if not always lyrically.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
07-29-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cartographers, San Antonio
