AltWeeklies Wire
CD Review: Dandy Warhols' This Machinenew
The End; Release date: April 24, 2012
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Lew Herman |
05-24-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Dandy Warhols, This Machine
Jane's Addiction's greatest Escapenew
'90s alt-rockers fueled by latest album
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Jeff Hahne |
05-24-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Dave Navarro, Jane's Addiction
Wonderful Bubblenew
Montreal's Plants and Animals lowered the pressure to record their third full-length album
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
05-24-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: plants and animals
Band of Gypsies: Gogol Bordellonew
"Art is the receptor of vibrations -- there's no logic behind it," says band leader Eugene Hutz
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Jeff Hahne |
05-24-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gogol Bordello, Band of Gypsies
Garbage: 'Not Your Kind of People'new
The opening chords of the latest album from Shirley Manson and Co. — released on the band’s own label — sound like the most epic Megaman game ever to hit your Nintendo.
San Antonio Current |
James Bosquez |
05-24-2012 |
Reviews
Underground Persistencenew
How the Movement festival keeps it cred as dance music hits mainstream.
Metro Times |
Hobey Echlin |
05-24-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pennies From Heavennew
The new streaming economy is here, with or without royalties.
Austin Chronicle |
Doug Freeman |
05-21-2012 |
Music
Tags: Music Business, Streaming Music
Rather than a supergroup, Kill Devil Hill is the real dealnew
The word "supergroup" gets applied so readily and so reflexively, especially in the world of hard rock and heavy metal, that it's pretty easy to distrust instinctively. That's why Rex Brown doesn't use it.
San Antonio Current |
Leonard Pierce |
05-17-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dwayne Verheyden: Most likely to steal the show (again)new
Next time anyone tells you conjunto is dead or just a regional thing, just say two words: Dwayne Verheyden.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-17-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pep Squad: 'Get Outrageous'new
Overdosed on retro-futurism? Pep Squad is not for you.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
05-17-2012 |
Reviews
The Texas Weather: 'The Fall, The Winter'new
Nick Mery may have a rep for being his own biggest fan, but The Fall, The Winter (the album title was changed from the original Pluck) demonstrates his willingness to let someone else take the reins.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
05-17-2012 |
Reviews
Willie Nelson: 'Heroes'new
Unlike too many artists his age, Willie Nelson (who turned 79 in April) gets cooler and edgier with time. His latest album is a collection of country classics from as early as the 1930s and new songs that are as good — if not even better — than the covers.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-17-2012 |
Reviews
Great Lake Swimmers: New Wild Everywherenew
Toronto songwriter Tony Dekker leads Great Lake Swimmers, an electrified folk orchestra striving for the same agelessness that's carried decades of roots music. New Wild Everywhere finds Dekker writing with a troubadour's restlessness, filling his songs with elemental and natural imagery—fire, wind, storms, animals, wounds, dreams and desires...
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
05-17-2012 |
Reviews
Santana: 'Shape Shifter'new
Santana’s first release on his newly formed Starfaith label is a mostly instrumental tour-de-force that pays homage to the indigenous peoples of America while advocating for international recognition of the egregious wrongs done to native peoples worldwide.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
05-17-2012 |
Reviews
Godhunter: Wolvesnew
Local sludge quintet Godhunter finally unveils a proper physical-CD release for their debut five-track album, which became available via the band's Bandcamp site earlier this year. Recorded at Arcane Digital Recording in Chandler and released by Tucson extreme-music label Acid Reflux, Wolves wields a medulla oblongata-wrenching wallop and obvious political (anarcho-libertarian) lyrics...
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
05-16-2012 |
Reviews
