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How Garage Rock Enduresnew
The irony is that while simple four-chord garage rock is now celebrated as an underground, community-driven punk-like movement, in its heyday it birthed more mainstream rock standards than soft-rock or synth-pop ever could.
New Haven Advocate |
Christopher Arnott |
02-26-2008 |
Music
The New Sound of Old Garage Rocknew
Newly unearthed recordings prove that Connecticut rocked in the late 1960s.
New Haven Advocate |
Alan Bisbort |
02-26-2008 |
Music
Erykah Badu Has Returnednew
The songstress burst through her struggles with writer's block and created a solid record.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
02-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ludo: All Fired Upnew
Ludo has toured constantly enough to wear out two vans over the past four years. They'd go anywhere -- Leavenworth, Kansas, or Wheaton, Illinois -- just to reach an audience.
Riverfront Times |
Kathleen McLaughlin |
02-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ludo, You're Awful, I Love You
A Hipster's Guide to Afro-Indie Rocknew
Here's eight records. Now go start a riot.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
02-25-2008 |
Music
The Strangeness of Singernew
Members of U.S. Maple, the 90 Day Men, and Town and Country form an antisupergroup.
Chicago Reader |
Miles Raymer |
02-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: singer, Unhistories
Stephin Merritt's Distorted Dreamnew
The Magnetic Fields frontman thinks about 26 songs at a time and imitates the Jesus and Mary Chain.
New York Press |
David Chiu |
02-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Distortion, Magnetic Fields
The Demise of Hyphynew
Thizzle, bling and blunts may have helped bring down the overhyped hyphy movement. But KMEL helped pull the trigger.
Skinheads at Fortynew
Twenty years after their heyday, the anti-racist Baldies recount the rise and fall of a notorious Twin Cities scene.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Matt Snyders |
02-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Baldies
Big Bad Tadnew
Grunge's true hero is exposed in the new documentary Tad: Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
02-19-2008 |
Music
Tags: TAD
They Might Be Giants of Kids' Musicnew
Cleverly designed to teach kids to recognize numbers and how to count, TMBG deploys its usual earnest wackiness with a variety of musical influences, from twisted American folk to '60s rock riffs and '70s soul, as the duo works its way up from zero to infinity.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
02-15-2008 |
Reviews
The Legend of Ornette Colemannew
There was a time when jazz was one of the most radical of art forms. And at the vanguard stood Ornette Coleman.
The Portland Mercury |
Kevin Friedman |
02-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ornette Coleman
How Indie Rock Morphed into Adult Contemporarynew
Sufjan Stevens and Feist are just the beginning.
New York Press |
Greg Burgett |
02-14-2008 |
Music
Bradford Cox: Boy Wondernew
Deerhunter leader grows inward with solo Atlas Sound release.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Anyone Can Write the Grammys!new
Yes, Virginia, writers make the Grammys "long" and "boring" and sometimes "wildly unpredictable."
Metro Times |
Serene Dominic |
02-12-2008 |
Music
