AltWeeklies Wire
Ill Communication Goes Beyond the Beatsnew
On a drizzly November afternoon in the Alamo City, a handful of local and national hip-hop enthusiasts gathered with community members for a two-day conference to explore the music's dichotomies.
San Antonio Current |
M. Solis |
11-28-2007 |
Music
Tags: Ill Communication
The Alicia Keys Conundrum Continuesnew
Keys' air of confidence and preternaturally soulful rasp initially distracted us from the fact that her songwriting lagged far behind her performing ability.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alicia Keys, As I Am
Piracy Warsnew
New Congressional legislation stirs debate about illegal file-sharing on campus.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-21-2007 |
Music
Gloria Rios, Queen of Rocanrolnew
Where was Gloria Rios when I needed her ... When all I had was Freddy Fender to turn to for a South Texas, Spanish-language rock pioneer?
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
11-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gloria Rios
Taking the Sting Out of the '80s Biggest Rock Bandnew
The Police are to pop music what Sandy Koufax is to baseball, Rocky Marciano is to boxing, and Jim Brown is to football.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: police
'I'm Not There' Soundtrack is for the Bob-ologistsnew
The covers on the soundtrack for the defiantly eccentric Dylan biopic are positively reverent, all the more curious because they're coming from such an irreverent collection of indie rockers.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
11-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: I'm Not There, Various Artists
Say Anything Throws Emo Caution to the Wind with Follow-upnew
Upping the ante is the fact that In Defense of the Genre is a dreaded double CD, and a concept album to boot.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ben Harper Finds His 'Lifeline'new
"The hardest thing any musician will ever do is follow an album that's decent," Ben Harper says of his 2006 release, Both Sides of the Gun. "To avoid self-adulation, I'll just use the word 'decent.'"
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Indie-Pop Phenom Creates Uncomfortable Intimacynew
Marcus Rubio's songs are invariably simple and repetitive, and most of the musical action comes from the painstaking arrangements, the way he layers violin, piano, glockenspiel, and the rest of the kitchen sink onto his adolescent musings.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Marcus Rubio, The Life of Pillows
San Antonio Symphony Debuts New Local Worknew
As California grapples with the ravages of wildfires, the San Antonio Symphony begins rehearsals for the world premiere of "Something Miraculous Burns," the newest work by local composer David Heuser.
San Antonio Current |
Diana Roberts |
10-31-2007 |
Music
'In Rainbows' Wears 'More Rock' Crownnew
It's kind of funny that every Radiohead album released post-Kid A has been heralded as the group's "return to rock" -- as though Thom Yorke's dips into electronic music and jazz have only delayed what we really want to hear: more versions of "High and Dry."
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: In Rainbows, Radiohead
Barrio Brigadenew
Bombasta teams with San Diego's B-Side Players for a night of one-world polyrhythms.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bruce Springsteen Lets Loose on 'Magic'new
It has the garage-band fervor of The River, amplified by a higher level of literary sophistication, and abetted by Springsteen's rare willingness to let his jangle-pop flag fly.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
10-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: magic, Bruce Springsteen
Cafe Tacuba's 'Sino' Tops the Band's Albumsnew
When Cafe Tacuba came out of nowhere (Mexico City, to be exact) in 1992, few realized that we were witnessing the arrival of the New Messiahs of Spanish-language rock.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cafe Tacuba, Sino
Joe Ely Does Some Reflectingnew
This year he's released a pair of albums on his Rack'Em label, Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch and Silver City. The two discs are in some sense the soundtrack to his new book, Bonfire of Roadmaps, which compiles his musings from a life spent on the road, beginning when he was 17.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parler |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Ely
