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Spoon's Ga5, Art Brut's 'It's a Little Bit Complicated' and Tony Parker's Hip-Hopnew
Ga5 is both the most ambitious and accessible Spoon record to date.
San Antonio Current |
Staff |
07-05-2007 |
Music
Joe Reyes' One-man Bandwagonnew
Reyes finds time between his multiple musical commitments to make an excellent solo EP.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
06-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Reyes
Sugar, They're Not Going Downnew
Fall Out Boy continue to back up their egomaniacal posturing.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
06-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fall Out Boy
Putting the 'Mock' in Democracynew
Asylum Street Spankers' Christina Marrs talks about political satire.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Robinson |
06-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Asylum Street Spankers
Finding Her Voicenew
Singer Patty Griffin breaks away from "quiet songs" with this brash, vibrant album.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
06-06-2007 |
Reviews
The Children of Eltonnew
Gifted singer-pianists like Rufus Wainwright and Mika have emerged to extend John's genre -- call it cabaret rock, or simply Eltonia -- in new and exciting directions.
San Antonio Current |
Geoffrey Himes |
05-30-2007 |
Music
The Gourds: 'Creatures' Comfortsnew
The band tops itself again with an unusually revealing eighth album.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
05-23-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Gourds
God and Paulino Bernalnew
The Al Green of conjunto music revives his career at the Tejano Conjunto Festival.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
05-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paulino Bernal
Jett Passengersnew
Girl in a Coma goes nationwide with a strong new album for Joan Jett's Blackheart Records.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
05-03-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Girl In a Coma
Born in East L.A.new
Like a Chicano Pogues, Ollin plays folk music with a punk sense of rebellion.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
04-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ollin
The Artist Formerly Known as Smog ... and (Smog)new
By any name, Bill Callahan is a major indie-pop auteur.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
04-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bill Callahan
Fitness Gurusnew
Gym Class Heroes put a choke hold on American youth with their comical punk-rap.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
04-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gym Class Heroes
Indie-Pop Pharmacynew
Druggist: Better music through great band chemistry.
San Antonio Current |
Denise Blaz |
03-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Druggist
Will New FCC Agreement Bring Indie Music to Commercial Airwaves?new
Critics will rightfully complain that the agreement is a mere token gesture in the face of deep, systemic problems -- but token gestures are preferable to indifference, and indifference is what indies generally get from commercial radio.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
03-21-2007 |
Music
'Money' Talksnew
Fast Money turns three years of incarceration into fuel for his rhymes.
San Antonio Current |
M. Solis |
03-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fast Money
