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Long Miles graduate from the school of reggae-rocknew
Four years ago, John Shields and the Long Miles were rookie bandmates in their first years of college. This week, they release 10-song collection titled Shades with a big show at the Music Farm.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
04-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Lee Fields: out from James Brown's shadownew
"I'm still a North Carolinian at heart. The way I approach songs, I think about some of the things I learned and experienced as a boy growing up in Wilson."
INDY Week |
John Schacht |
04-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Lost in the Trees' A Church That Fits Our Needsnew
If you've come to get your heartstrings tugged, you won't be disappointed.
Islands: A Sleep and a Forgetting (Anti-)new
Only a heartless pustule or jaundiced cynic would actively cheer for heartbreak. Still, the history of popular music teaches that albums inspired by heartbreak are often a prickly sort of brilliant.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
04-02-2012 |
Reviews
Soul mongrelsnew
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound try to break your heart
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chris Parker |
04-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Two new releases keep Janis Joplin's legacy alivenew
Port Arthur singer Janis Joplin, who would've been 69 this year, is back in the record business with two "new" releases.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
04-02-2012 |
Music
All the way from Memphisnew
Southern rock road warriors Lucero keep their work ethic intact
Colorado Springs Independent |
Lynne Margolis |
04-02-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Celebrating Chuck Workmannew
Saying goodbye to one of the city's jazz legends.
NUVO |
Matthew Socey |
03-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Many Facetsnew
On their chart-topping second album, the members of fun. get introspective
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
03-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Caltrop's Ten million years and eight minutesnew
When it's exciting, Ten million years is a reminder of the energy to be found at the borders of hard rock and heavy metal. (Holidays for Quince)
Jazz pianist Robert Glasper doesn't have time for a dead formnew
"Nine times out of 10, when you turn on [a jazz radio station], they're playing stuff from like 1950. It makes the music sound old—like it's already done and now we're just paying homage."
INDY Week |
Eric Tullis |
03-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
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Borgore flexes his party musclesnew
Musician, DJ, and producer Borgore is a driven young man. A few years ago, he switched from playing in a death metal band to a solo career in electronic music.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
03-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Donna the Buffalo gears up for a wagon trainnew
Tara Nevins sounds exhausted over the phone. She and her Donna the Buffalo bandmates are burning the midnight oil, firing up their ninth studio album. They put in 12 hours a day for almost two weeks straight before kicking off their current spring tour.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Parker |
03-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Southern Culture on the Skids keeps leaving their marknew
Southern Culture on the Skids guitarist Rick Miller is on his front porch, relaxing in the unseasonably warm weather when we reach him. It's tempting to ask if he's got his straw cap on and a cold can of Bud between his legs.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Parker |
03-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
