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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
Reason to Crawlnew
The case for the arts: It's only rock 'n' roll, but we like it.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Nintzel |
04-19-2012 |
Music
Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (Young Money/Universal Republic)new
The politics of Roman Reloaded are fascinating and bewildering. On the cover, Minaj dons birthday-cake-frosted whiteface. She's Paris Hilton by way of FLCL.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
04-05-2012 |
Reviews
Whirr: Pipe Dreams (Tee Pee)new
Guitarist Nick Bassett of San Francisco black-metal band Deafheaven has a new, wildly different project, a shoegaze-revivalist sextet called Whirr. This mysterious Bay Area band ambitiously seeks to return rock 'n' roll to the year 1991, when My Bloody Valentine pushed miasmic guitar-pop to its outer limits with the acclaimed Loveless...
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
04-05-2012 |
Reviews
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
Many Facetsnew
On their chart-topping second album, the members of fun. get introspective
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
03-31-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Perfume Genius: Put Your Back N 2 Itnew
Out of desperation can come redemption. From challenges that threaten to break us, we learn resilience. Dangerous excess can lead to enlightenment.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
03-26-2012 |
Reviews
A Necessary Evilnew
Ari Picker takes the folk-pop and chamber music of Lost in the Trees on tour to promote a new album.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
03-20-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: lost in the trees
Madi Diaz: Plastic Moonnew
There's something reassuring about the traditional musical values -- catchy vocal melodies, bright hooks, bouncy beats -- that Nashville tunesmith Madi Diaz applies to her chosen form, which is hard to call anything but power-pop.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
03-16-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: madi diaz
Jenny Owen Youngs: An Unwavering Band of Lightnew
On first listen, this deeply talented singer-songwriter's third full-length album is almost overwhelming, such is its embarrassing wealth of beguiling melodies, effervescent arrangements and endearing almost-love songs. But each time I press "play," it gets better, and now I find myself looking forward to each new track as the previous one fades.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
03-04-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: jenny owen youngs
Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memorynew
Attack on Memory is exciting for a lot of reasons, but mainly because it's the sound of a band finding its ambition. The group's last album was a solid, if unremarkable, affair—brief, propulsive garage rock with a bedroom-pop sensibility.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
02-28-2012 |
Reviews
Fresh and Compellingnew
Will Reptar's debut album and first headlining tour lead to a 2012 breakthrough?
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
02-28-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: reptar
Reaching Out Morenew
Ozomatli heads to the Rialto to raise funds for the fight in favor of TUSD's ethnic studies.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
02-16-2012 |
Concerts
Tags: ozomatli
Lawrence Ball: Method Musicnew
Few fans of the Who know or care about all that's been going on in Pete Townshend's intensely busy mind. Those who do may have followed the episodic progress of his utopian Lifehouse project, which resurfaced memorably around 2006 with his effort to synthesize a mass of original music gathered online.
Tucson Weekly |
Linda Ray |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Unusual Inspirationsnew
Chris Black went to some unusual places -- including the piano and a lumberyard -- to create 'Drunk at the Funeral.'
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
02-13-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
