AltWeeklies Wire
Rush Delivers in Return to Greensboronew

You could easily argue that there's better music out there, that there are better performers than the three guys on stage Saturday night. Just don't say it with a Rush fan in earshot.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
04-06-2011 |
Concerts
Tags: classic rock, Rush
Prince's Divine Right: The Artist Reigns Purple Across the Carolinasnew

How is it possible to carry on with normal concert viewing after getting through this thing called Prince?
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
03-31-2011 |
Reviews
Lightfoot Kicks Off Tour With Two Sets of Humility, Tenacitynew

No one familiar with Gordon Lightfoot would expect the legendary Canadian songwriter to ever ham it up on stage, particularly not while eulogizing his friend and lead guitarist of 40 years.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
03-24-2011 |
Reviews
Loretta Lynn Gives All That Can Be Asked of Hernew

She sang “Here I Am Again” with a note of demonstrative vulnerability, and immediately assumed an air of imposing self-assurance for “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man),” all while seated in a chair completely swallowed up in the billows of her gown.
YES! Weekly |
http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/article-11692-loretta-lynn-gives-all-that-can-be-asked-of-her.html |
03-10-2011 |
Reviews
Kid Rock: Back in Greensboro for the First Timenew

He’s the product of clever branding, commitment to a formula and endearing to a common denominator, and judging from his Feb. 22 show at the Greensboro Coliseum, Kid Rock knows damn well on which side of the “Go big or go home” paradigm he sits.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
03-04-2011 |
Reviews
As the Acoustic Syndicate Family Grows, a New Album Finally Awaitsnew

There`s maybe no better way to sum up the outlook of Acoustic Syndicate circa 2005 than the words of Bryon McMurry on the Shelby folk-rock oufit’s song “It Was Good While It Lasted.”
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
03-04-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Workingman's Grindnew

Ed E. Ruger's new album is a slice of blue-collar hip-hop life.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-24-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hip Hop, Ed E Ruger
Sweatin to the Aughties: Girl Talk Feeds the Animals in N.C.new

Even the most hyperliterate reviewer couldn’t craft a more effective précis of what takes place at a Girl Talk show than what is conveyed through a single snapshot immediately after the dance music maven relinquishes control of his crowd.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
02-02-2011 |
Reviews
Phish to Fiasco to Francenew

Brazilian musician and arranger Eumir Deodato continues to spread his imprint.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
01-26-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Q&A With Toubab Krewe’s Drew Hellernew

Having played close to a thousand shows since forming nearly six years ago, Malian-roots fusionists Toubab Krewe has had nearly every experience on the road that the touring musician can have.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
12-30-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Toubab Krewe
Snüzz Rules!new

A Greensboro, N.C.-area musician, producer and guru explores the sonic landscape of his region.
YES! Weekly |
Keith T. Barber |
12-16-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Snüzz
Usher Still Has A Ways To Gonew

Good for the eyes, okay for the ears, but the R&B megastar’s recent performance showed a man looking weary and complacent.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
12-16-2010 |
Reviews
J. Cole: Friday Night Lightsnew

“Never sold a rock and look I made it, bitch.” In an album full of severe pronouncements, perhaps none ring out with more ferocity than the statement J. Cole makes on “Before I’m Gone.”
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
12-02-2010 |
Reviews
Wiz Khalifa "Continues to Smoke" Two Days After Arrestnew

It’s hard to say how many of the hundreds of people slowly filtering through the doors of the cavernous Education Building were there after hearing of the rapper being hosted by a state correctional facility, but the sporadic chants of “free Wiz” gave some idea.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
11-18-2010 |
Music
Named After Vonnegut, But Sounds More Like Tucker Maxnew

In spite of the band essentially being a combination of everything unlikeable about Maroon 5 and Young Jeezy, Vonnegut still managed to parlay their tenuous connections into a favorable association with the second greatest emcee in all of the Dirty South.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
11-12-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Vonnegut