AltWeeklies Wire
Bowerbirds' Natural Soundsnew
Bowerbirds get inspiration from the wilds for their acoustic, spare arrangements.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
08-05-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Upper Air, Bowerbirds
Gallows Shows Off its Unhesitant Death Rattlenew
With Grey Britain, South London hard-core quintet Gallows unleashes a devastating screed against the stupider features of 21st-century English life.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
07-29-2009 |
Reviews
Discovery's 'LP' is Faddish Yet Funnew
Listening to Discovery's LP reminds us that synthpop is the "sound of the aughts."
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
07-29-2009 |
Reviews
Sax Ruins Breaks Down Category Wallsnew
Just when you thought nothing more could be done in the jazz-based idiom with a saxophone and a drum kit, along comes Sax Ruins, a deadly duo featuring improvisational sax player Ono Ryoko and Ruins skinsman Tatsuya Yoshida.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
07-29-2009 |
Reviews
The English Beat Continues to Hone its Reggae/Punk Blendnew
The English Beat may have become a beloved footnote in the history of college music if a funny thing hadn't happened in the United States in the '90s: An entirely new generation of kids became enamored with the 2 Tone sound and started forming bands of their own.
Tucson Weekly |
Stephen Seigel |
07-29-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Fiery Furnaces Return With a Very Good Albumnew
If you've ever been on the fence about this band's experimental excess, but enjoyed their more-cohesive moments, you'll be pleased by I'm Going Away.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
07-23-2009 |
Reviews
'Bitte Orca' is Aggravatingly Goodnew
The newest album from Brooklyn's Dirty Projectors is downright parasitic: It's an album composed of often noxious components that is deftly able to worm its way into the listener's heart.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
07-23-2009 |
Reviews
Evan Dando's Cover Album 'Varshons' Could Easily Be Filed Next to Loretta Lynnnew
Unbelievably, Dando does Townes Van Zandt ("Waiting Around to Die") better than the late songwriter's disciple, Steve Earle, giving the song a hazy, horse-ride-at-dawn touch. If you enjoyed Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand or Cat Power's covers, the Lemonheads' Varshons will dazzle and delight.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
07-23-2009 |
Reviews
The Metal Shakespeare Company Brings the Ax Down on the Bardnew
Jason Simms is quick to point out that the metal the Metal Shakespeare Company invokes is neither death nor thrash, since "methinks our death-metal-and-thrash cousin wouldst suit perhaps another poet."
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
07-23-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jason Lytle's Debut is Like Granddaddy, Stripped Downnew
Three years after the breakup of Grandaddy, Jason Lytle returns with a collection of dreamy pop songs about nature and modernity, bathed in quirky pathos.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
07-16-2009 |
Reviews
The Portland Cello Project Strings Us Alongnew
Cello versions of indie, pop, metal and/or rock songs, can't be boring -- but The Thao and Justin Power Sessions is, sadly enough, a little boring.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
07-16-2009 |
Reviews
Dinosaur Jr. Isn't Just Punching the Clock for Post-Reunion 'Farm'new
Farm, the band's ninth album and their first for the Jagjaguwar label, picks up where 2007's Beyond, a brilliant return from a 10-year hiatus, left off, even if it exchanges streamlined song structures for a varied attack.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
07-16-2009 |
Reviews
The Veils Bring Their Weird Yet Wondrous Music to the U.Snew
Finn Andrews says that he's flattered that anyone would pay attention to his work. "I sometimes wonder why anyone enjoys anything I do," says the singer-songwriter and leader of the London-based rock band The Veils.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
07-16-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sonic Youth's 'The Eternal' is Near Perfectionnew
The group's 16th full-length album is a singular work, with idiosyncratic salutes, via song dedications, to obscure beat poet Gregory Corso and punk rocker Bobby Pyn (aka Darby Crash), and folk hero John Fahey, who painted the cover art.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
07-08-2009 |
Reviews
Pete Yorn's Fourth Album is a Series of Conundrumsnew
Back and Fourth is definitely Pete Yorn's most commercial-sounding record -- but the lyrics are all too often cringe-worthy.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
07-08-2009 |
Reviews
