AltWeeklies Wire
Juanes is the Trojan Horse of Musicnew
The Columbian singer is a pretty boy you'll want to sock in the mouth for inspiring millions of jiggling boobs, but who'll knee you in the groin with expert guitar licks.
Tags: Juanes, La Vida Es ... un Ratico
The Efron Scandalnew
Lil Wayne's new project puts the high in High School Musical.
OC Weekly |
Ben Westhoff |
12-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lil Wayne
Father Beard Turns on Your Mindnew
Father Beard’s compositions unfurl in slow motion, as if they’re played in a narcotic haze.
OC Weekly |
Dave Segal |
12-11-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Father Beard
io Drones Alonenew
Is there a lonelier endeavor than creating ambient music in Orange County -- besides umbrella merchant?
The Fathomless Beauty of Blank Bluenew
Blank Blue are still a very young group, but the songs they've completed so far possess a beatific, rococo lushness -- as well as an understated funkiness.
OC Weekly |
Dave Segal |
11-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blank Blue
Mariza Modernizes Portuguese Fadonew
At 34, and with an evocative, heartbreaking vocal range, Mariza has emerged as the face and the voice of contemporary Portuguese fado, a modern revivalist with roots planted firmly in the music's tradition and history.
OC Weekly |
Daffodil J. Altan |
10-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Hungry Beat' Fills Fire Engines' Voidnew
Cited by Primal Scream and Franz Ferdinand as inspirations for their own bands, Scotland's Fire Engines burned briefly but thrice as brightly as most other groups of their time. Their oeuvre amounted to merely 18 tracks, but it is, as they say, all good.
Tags: Fire Engines, Hungry Beat
Cafe Tacuba's Denouementnew
This latest effort by Mexico's supreme rock en espanol group will grow on you, but that's not necessarily a ringing endorsement.
Tags: Cafe Tacuba, Sino
Manu Chao's Global Soundtrack Rolls Onnew
In many ways Chao's strongest album to date, La Radiolina is also his most electrified and may disappoint fans accustomed to the stripped-down acoustic style of his first two offerings.
Tags: La Radiolina, Manu Chao
Dancing Lethargic is a Quirk in Progressnew
Laguna Beach visual artist/musician Keith Fox creates music with quirk that goes right up to the tipping point of wacky, but ultimately stays on the good side of odd.
OC Weekly |
Dave Segal |
09-11-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dancing Lethargic
Heru John Basil, Anti-occult Heronew
Hanging with Orange County's most far-out psychedelic loner.
OC Weekly |
Dave Segal |
08-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Heru John Basil
Brother Reade Follow in the Grand Two-man Traditionnew
Rapper Jimmy Jamz and producer Bobby Evans cut the bullshit (no skits, no grandiose, time-wasting intros, etc.) and get down to flaunting their considerable skills, as the album's no-nonsense title implies.
Tags: Brother Reade, rap music
Another Sir Richard Bishop Gemnew
Renowned for his mercurial guitar-playing over the last 26 years with Seattle ethnodelic legends Sun City Girls, Bishop has wrought a distinguished solo canon as well.
Bumps Gives a 23-track Seminar on the Manifold Pleasures of Rhythmnew
Besides being a musical feast in its own right, Bumps also serves as a beggar's banquet for sample hounds looking to bolster their rhymes with killer blaps.
Tags: Bumps
Are Your Ears Burning Yet?new
Surveying the (potential) sound-good hits of the summer.
