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How Alesana Quietly Became One of North Carolina's Biggest Bandsnew
Songs inspired by fairy tales and classic fiction veer between bludgeoning metalcore and airy pop-rock, between complex prog and sing-along simplicity -- a sound the band has dubbed "sweetcore."
Tags: Alesana
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Stage Whispernew
If there's a group more likely to make terrible records than the offspring of rock stars, it's actors. Charlotte Gainsbourg just so happens to fall into both categories.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
The Roots: Undunnew
The Roots have delivered increasingly poignant and thematically focused records on life's trials. undun, their 13th album, is their most emotive, urgent, and (at less than 40 minutes) brief work.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
How Jennifer Espinoza Became Freddie Mercurynew
Like many younger Queen fans her age, Jennifer was turned on after watching Wayne's World.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
12-22-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Home lonenew
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes singer Jade takes time out for a solo spin.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chris Parker |
12-22-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Edward Sharpe, Magnetic Zeroes
G. Love's Special Sourcenew
With help from the Avett Brothers, the eclectic frontman covers some of his favorite songs.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Lynne Margolis |
12-22-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Five Words with LiLanew
Durham's other live hip-hop band talks ambition and inclusion.
INDY Week |
Eric Tullis |
12-21-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: LiLa
The Funky Education of Stereo Reformnew
Greenville-based trio Stereo Reform calls their music "dance-a-funk-a-rock-a-tronic," a mix that falls closer to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Average White Band than today's teeny-bopper divas.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
12-20-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Stereo Reform, dance-a-funk
Jewish Soul Musicnew
Neshama Carlebach and the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir want to give people something to hold on to.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
12-18-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Greyhounds are a Dynamic Duonew
The Greyhounds recently released an EP titled Spring Training. Compared to some of their funky material from the 2000s, the new stuff is more spare and sparse, but the element of soul remains intact.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
12-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sadler Vaden Lands Gig with Drivin' N Cryin'new
One year ago, Sadler Vaden was super busy with his longtime rock trio Leslie. These days, when the guitarist and songwriter talks about his band, he's referring to veteran rock group Drivin' N Cryin'.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
12-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pres. Hall Leader on Big Easy Christmasnew
For all that hurricanes and oil spills can take away, tradition isn’t among them. At least not while institutions like Preservation Hall exists. After a series of commemorative shows at home, the famed jazz club’s house band is preparing to celebrate 50 years as the standard bearers for New Orleans jazz by doing what they do best: hitting the road for a special performance at Carnegie Hall in January. Until then, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band is evangelizing other Big Easy musical traditions with their Creole Holiday tour, coming to SECCA in Winston-Salem this Friday. Below, Preservation Hall Cre- ative Director and tuba player extraordinaire Ben Jaffe, son of hall founder Allan Jaffe, waxes on NOLA holiday traditions influenc- ing seasonal music and how relationships formed during the recording of the band’s 2010 benefit album have shaped the institu tions future.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
12-15-2011 |
Music
The Triangle's Top 10 Albums of 2011new
During a year when several of the Triangle's best-known bands didn't release records, area acts released, by my count, at least 30 albums that will henceforth belong in forever rotation.
The Accidental Fortune of Lizzy Ross' Read Me Out Loudnew
"It's the first chance I've had to really express the music the way I hear it in my head. And it's also the most accurate representation of what the band really sounds like and a representation of where I want to go as an artist."
INDY Week |
Ashley Melzer |
12-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: lizzy ross, read me out loud
Five Words with Southern Culture on the Skids' Rick Millernew
We caught up with the SCOTS frontman to discuss his band's history with fried chicken and what some folks call rednecks.
INDY Week |
Spencer Griffith |
12-15-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
