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Morrissey: Viva Hatenew
Morrissey is the only standing member of the old UK guard who has yet to be reduced to preposterous self-caricature.
East Bay Express |
M.T. Richards |
04-20-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Morrissey
Lightships: Electric Cablesnew
Electric Cables, the debut album by Teenage Fanclub's Gerard Love (under the Lightships moniker), is as bright and breezy as a summer day. That's in keeping with Love's past in C86-style bedroom pop, most recently his contributions to 2010's Shadows.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
04-20-2012 |
Reviews
Da Oral History of "Da Butt"new
Put your memory in motion! It’s the back story of D.C. go-go’s biggest national hit.
Washington City Paper |
Sarah Godfrey |
04-20-2012 |
Music
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy/God Townes: 'In Love'new
Record Store Day was made for releases like this: The Grasshopper Lies Heavy (the name is a reference to Philip K. Dick’s classic novel The Man In The High Castle, by way of the Bible) and God Townes.
San Antonio Current |
Leonard Pierce |
04-20-2012 |
Reviews
Vinyl Gets Another Spinnew
Showing it has more lives than a cockroach, vinyl has been reborn, resulting in some beautiful music. But sometimes production values in records and turntables are lacking.
Houston Press |
Craig Hlavaty |
04-20-2012 |
Music
Tags: Vinyl Records
Shedding Light on Record Masteringnew
Engineers give advice on the final step of the recording process.
East Bay Express |
Will Butler |
04-20-2012 |
Music
Tags: record mastering
Zammuto's second act pays homage to his pastnew
Nick Zammuto has been many things in his life: an entry-level grunt at an L.A.-based pharmaceutical company, an Appalachian Trail hiker (literally, not figuratively), and for six years a devoted homesteader on a Vermont mountaintop where he and his family built a house and grew most of their food. But the 2011 breakup of the sonic scrap-heap pop group the Books — which Zammuto occupied opposite cellist Paul de Jong through a decade of critical acclaim — resulted in two new jobs: serving as public relations and front man for his new project, which bears his surname.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
04-20-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Zambri: House of Baasanew
The Zambri sisters' voices recall Siouxsie Sioux, almost to distraction. Part of House of Baasa's dark frisson comes from how it carries on Sioux's particular legacy, though it has less of the murky pulse of Kaleidoscope's "Christine" (though the Baasa song "Hundred Hearts" comes closest to that kind of minimalism, while cheekily suggesting the main riff to Berlin's "Take My Breath Away") and more of the symphonic clutter of Superstition's "Kiss Them for Me."...
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
04-20-2012 |
Reviews
The Invisible Friendsnew
A year after the release of their first album, 1995's A Typical and Autoctonal Venezuelan Dance Band, Los Amigos Invisibles moved to New York and soon after got a call from an enthusiastic David Byrne, who'd found the album at a local record store and turned into an instant fan. They hung up on him.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
04-20-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Héctor Lavoe: 'Anthology'new
Fania, the legendary salsa label, is often compared to Motown. Both companies spearheaded musical movements during the '60s and '70s. Both groomed a stellar roster of artists who yielded hit after hit.
San Antonio Current |
Agustín Gurza |
04-20-2012 |
Reviews
Mayer Hawthorne steps away from the turntables and grabs the micnew
Mayer Hawthorne's back on the road supporting his recent album How Do You Do, which marks his major label debut on Universal Republic. He admits he had plenty of reservations about taking that next step.
Charleston City Paper |
Andrea Warner |
04-20-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mayer Hawthorne
Andrew Bird: Break It Yourselfnew
"This peculiar incantation, I'm sure you've heard it before," Andrew Bird sings on "Desperation Breeds ...," the first song on Break It Yourself, his sixth solo album. As an introduction to the album, it's an interesting notion, both true and sort of false...
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
04-20-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: andrew bird
Patch Cord Godfathernew
At 79, Morton Subotnick still sings the body electric.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Marc Weidenbaum |
04-20-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Morton Subotnick
The Shins: 'Port of Morrow'new
Port of Morrow is a bit of a conundrum. On some levels, it represents a sea change for the band, perhaps appropriate given that “the Shins” is now nothing more than James Mercer and a bunch of other guys.
San Antonio Current |
Nicholas Hall |
04-20-2012 |
Reviews
Surf's Upnew
The Beach Boys celebrate 50 years with a tour featuring the return of several original members.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Lipson |
04-19-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Beach Boys
