AltWeeklies Wire
Lazer Sword: Memorynew
Electronic duo and production team Lazer Sword—Antaeus Roy (aka Lando Kal) and Bryant Rutledge (aka Low Limit)—is back with its first studio effort since 2010's self-titled debut full-length. Memory, out on Modeselektor's Monkeytown label, is only a slight departure from the partnership's crunky roots...
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
06-25-2012 |
Reviews
Welcome, Wussynew
See the group that Robert Christgau calls the best band in America.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-23-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Wussy
That Outlaw Spiritnew
J.P. Harris stays handy while developing his own brand of traditional country music.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-18-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Going Organicnew
The Cave Singers keep up their natural progression.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
06-18-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: cave singers
Misery Breeds Beautynew
Gillian Welch turns in excellent early-country-bluegrass duets on her first album in eight years.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
06-18-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: gillian welch
Greg Laswell: Landlinenew
San Diego singer-songwriter Greg Laswell left for rural Maine to record his latest album, and he found some moody depths that make Landline an edgier work. Oddly, though, in the songs that come from the isolation of recording in an old church turned house, it's Laswell's collaborations with other singers that stand out...
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
05-29-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: greg laswell
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
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
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
High on Fire: De Vermis Mysteriisnew
To call High on Fire's sound "punishing" would not be hyperbole. While it may seem unrelenting and repetitive at first, it's a pain that becomes addictive after multiple rotations.
Tucson Weekly |
Brian Mock |
05-11-2012 |
Reviews
Last Call Brawlers: The Pressures of Living, The Darkness of Dyingnew
The Brawlers have been around since 1999, and their latest album shows the band's meld of rockabilly, punk and surf music at its most seamless. The local quartet keeps things simple and direct, always opting for heart and guts rather than elaboration...
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
05-08-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: last call brawlers
Cajun Crusadersnew
BeauSoleil posits that you can be American, and be different, too.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
05-07-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: BeauSoleil
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
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
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
