AltWeeklies Wire
Reserve Space in Your Playlist Now for These Anticipated Albumsnew
The music industry showed signs of life in 2011: Adele sold 14.5 million copies of 21, and Apple, Spotify, Google, and others launched music cloud services in what may prove to be the biggest turning point for music since iTunes dropped in 2001.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-13-2012 |
Music
Tags: new music in 2012
Third Root’s ‘Winter in America’new
Though the year is just getting started, one of the most ambitious and original local collaborations of 2012 is bound to be Third Root, a project by Mojoe's Easy Lee (poet, author, and emcee) and Mexican Stepgrandfather (Marco Cervantes, an emcee who also teaches Mexican-American and Afro-Chicano history at UTSA).
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopeteguin |
01-13-2012 |
Music
Whole Lotta Lifenew
Wilco's energetic new album finds Jeff Tweedy loosening up on the reins.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
01-12-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
White Cascade's EP2new
Raleigh trio White Cascade is following that painful rule of creativity—cheerily discarding the past to try something new.
Tags: White Cascade
Rolling Stone's Super Bowl Tailgate Lineupnew
The Rock n Roll Tailgate party will feature Pete Wentz, Jane's Addiction and the Roots.
Monoslangnew
With the addition of vocalist Lesley Pond, Raleigh's Monoslang slides from pop-structured post-rock into trip-hop territory.
Tags: Monoslang
Common: The Dreamer, The Believernew
Common has always walked a tightrope. His "I Used to Love H.E.R." is a love song (a rap rarity in '94) that charted his love's spiritual and moral decline (his betrothed being the genre, not a woman).
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Guided By Voices: Let’s Go Eat the Factorynew
2011 was a tough year for alt-rock nostalgics: R.E.M.'s break-up, Sonic Youth's expected split, even Pavement's reunion tour turned bittersweet on news that there would be no formal reunion or forthcoming release.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
House of Low Culture: Poisoned Soilnew
The latest release from former ISIS member Aaron Turner's new project begins with a piercing drone that segues into gorgeous analog synth and chant-like vocals before moving into Spaghetti Western guitar territory that is destroyed by a smattering of static and distorted vocals.
San Antonio Current |
Marcus Rubio |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Steven R. Smith: Old Sketenew
Multi-instrumentalist, musician, and printmaker Steven R. Smith's fifteenth solo album (from a staggeringly extensive discography of almost 40 releases) presents the artist at his most raw and vital
San Antonio Current |
James Woodard |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Flannel Church creates Hampton-ized gospel-funknew
There's a buzz about Flannel Church, a newly formed power-trio featuring drummer Duane Trucks, bassist Kevin Scott, and blues guitarist Gregory "Wolf" Hodges. All three bandmates have connections via Col. Bruce Hampton.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
01-09-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Flannel Church, Shane Pruitt
Granddaddy Beethoven Getting Comprehensive Treatmentnew
Why Beethoven? Jack Fishman, president and CEO of the San Antonio Symphony, tells it like this: "I've often heard that the periods of music are: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Beethoven, Romantic, and Contemporary.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-05-2012 |
Music
R.I.P. Sam Rivers (1923-2011)new
A friend remembers the late, great jazz legend.
Orlando Weekly |
Matt Gorney |
01-05-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Los Tigres del Norte: Tr3s Presents MTV Unpluggednew
"We're more American than all the gringos," sing Jorge Hernández and guest Zach de la Rocha (Rage Against the Machine) in the first MTV unplugged album by the most socially conscious norteña band ever.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-05-2012 |
Reviews
Swing Shiftnew
The Blue Ribbon Healers put down stakes in Colorado.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chris Parker |
01-05-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
