AltWeeklies Wire
Spider Bags' Shake My Headnew
At its foundation, Shake My Head is a collection of straightforward bar-rock songs. Walking (well, staggering) rhythms lend a vintage R&B swing behind overdriven guitar lines that mine '70s rock and pop.
Tags: Spider Bags
Alt-folk siren Brandi Carlile taps into her country rebel rootsnew
Sure, no one's going to mistake Brandi Carlile's new album Bear Creek for Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, but to her, old-school country is as nonconformist as "Anarchy in the U.K."
Charleston City Paper |
Miles Britton |
08-08-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Andy Hull, Brandi Carlile
Curren$y Cashes Innew
The New Orleans rapper who's having his best year ever.
Gambit |
Alex Woodward |
08-07-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Curren$y
Revenge of the Nerdsnew
The 5th annual Nerdapalooza 2012 music fest anticipates its biggest year to date – and its most awkwardly public presence.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
08-03-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Paul Stanley promises brand-new Kiss spectacle with Crüe, The Treatmentnew
Kiss has never worried about being upstaged by an opening act.
San Antonio Current |
Alan Sculley |
08-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bad Breaks: 'Bad Breaks'new
Bad Breaks really captures my attention at the moment of transition into "Seppuku," the album's second (and best) song.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
08-02-2012 |
Reviews
Mötley Crüe: Never too old to rock 'n' rollnew
You're only as old as the bands you feel, and when one of those bands wrote a song called "Dr. Feelgood," well, that's a clue, isn't it?
San Antonio Current |
Leonard Pierce |
08-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Freddie Mercury's swagger remains powerful 20 years after his passingnew
In her well researched, carefully crafted book Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury, British music journalist and author Lesley-Ann Jones shines light on some of the more private moments of late rock singer Freddie Mercury's life.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
08-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dream back onnew
Aerosmith rises from the ashes of American Idol
Colorado Springs Independent |
Tom Lanham |
08-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Steve Tyler, Aerosmith
Oulipo's Primitive Waysnew
Primitive Ways sounds like the next step of an almost great band, drunk on possibilities but still learning how to present them.
No Eyes' No Eyesnew
No Eyes' self-titled EP is like a Texas psych-rockin' longhair in the midst of getting his mop snipped into a neat London bowl, but some loose ends still await their trim.
The Anarchist Song Booknew
Noise musician BLACKIE searches for total freedom in music.
Houston Press |
Shea Serrano |
08-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
How Not To Write About Female Musicians, Part 7,081new
Sweeping generalizations about women's intelligence, work and art based strictly on their appearance aren't new, but I've been noticing it more, especially a few awful sentences relating to girls "in heat" and "chick rockers."
Dallas Observer |
Audra Schroeder |
07-31-2012 |
Music
Los Texmaniacs: 'Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds'new
When it comes to condensing everything that's great about Tex-Mex into a CD that pleases both the people and academia, nobody does it better than the Texmaniacs and the Smithsonian.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-29-2012 |
Reviews
Verisimilitude: Teen marvels ditch angst for musical aptitudenew
A Verisimilitude show is like sitting in on a low-key band practice. Somewhat awkward and pleasantly unrefined, each 30-minute set boasting personality and charismatic dance moves.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-29-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
