AltWeeklies Wire
Buttercup's Strong Finishnew
When Buttercup plotted their three-EPs-in-a-year crusade to bring extreme productivity back to music, The Head Sits Upside Down on the Top of the Head was conceived as the weird finale.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-13-2008 |
Reviews
Absolutely No Ideanew
The avant-garde No Idea Festival's early editions focused primarily on Texas artists, but founder Chris Cogburn has broadened the geographic and cultural range of the festival considerably this year.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-13-2008 |
Concerts
Tags: No Idea Festival, concerts
Tulsa Timenew
Ludo reloads with another batch of theatrical, ambitious rock.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
02-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ludo, You’re Awful, I Love You
Miranda Lawnew
Four years after placing third on Nashville Star, 24-year-old Miranda Lambert is able to say, once and for all, that she’s glad she failed to win.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Apollo Missionnew
Valerie Fernandez takes her soulful pipes to legendary Harlem theater and emerges with new ambition.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
01-30-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Valerie Fernandez
World According to Gurfnew
Producing songwriters such as Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mary Gauthier, and Slaid Cleaves can be hard on a writer's ego.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
01-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Diamonds to Dust, Gurf Morlix
Assassination Tangonew
Tango Around the World's complete liner notes (in English, Spanish, and French) score a three-pointer when they correctly state that Argentina has no monopoly on the roots of tango: Cuba and, especially, Uruguay deserve a good piece of the pie.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-09-2008 |
Reviews
Art Garfunkel Knows Where He Standsnew
Although he admits he does not know what the future holds, the 66-year-old, carrot-fro'd crooner seems to realize he will never approach the pinnacle he once co-inhabited with Paul Simon from 1965 to 1970.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
01-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Problem With the Rock and Roll Hall of Famenew
Dave Clark Five over the Replacements? Color us unimpressed.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
01-02-2008 |
Music
The Kids Were Alrightnew
Whatever happened to the seminal figures of San Antonio punk? You might be surprised.
San Antonio Current |
Mark Jones |
01-02-2008 |
Music
Garota do São Paulonew
Maria Rita, the daughter of Elis Regina, arguably Brazil’s greatest female singer, has always found ways to tastefully interpret and give new life to Spanish songs.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Maria Rita
Pre-boxed Giftsnew
It's that time again -- time to hunt through record stores for something nice that the music lover on your list doesn't already own, whether it's unheard sounds or a novel collection of beloved ones. Thank you, box sets.
San Antonio Current |
John DeFore |
12-05-2007 |
Reviews
The Hives: 'We Kick Ass and You Don't'new
It's been said that the purpose of all art is to express the inexpressible; to convey something that can't be easily defined. If that's the case, then the music of the Hives may not be art.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
12-05-2007 |
Reviews
Former Plimsoul Peter Case Soldiers Onnew
"I felt really naked, but it felt kind of dangerous. I was in a place with just 200 people in it -- the Plimsouls were playing to much bigger crowds -- all of a sudden I'm playing this smaller place acoustic. I liked that it added that kind of risk factor," says Case.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
12-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Police Statenew
The legendary trio mucks things up at San Antonio show, but also offers hints of old greatness.
San Antonio Current |
John DeFore |
11-28-2007 |
Concerts
