AltWeeklies Wire
Going All The Way Up
The Canadian alternative-rock band is reassembled, focused, and keen on causing a serious uproar across North America.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hot Hot Heat, Elevator
Bluesy Enough
Jason Ricci looks more like a character out of an alternative rock magazine than a blues cat, but critics describe him as one of the top virtuoso harmonica players in the South.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Burnin' & Blowin', Jason Ricci
Kick Back and Kick It In
The Charleston-based traveling band specializes in an earthy, bluegrass-tinged mix of Americana, rock, and power-pop.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Blue Dogs, Halos & Good Buys
Seven Mary Three Dislocates
Singer/guitarist Jason Ross discusses the rock quartet's latest album and 2005 tour.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tweak-a-Boonew
Kieran Hedben’s unwillingness to reside at any one extreme defines his fourth Four Tet album, which eschews the "folktronica" style he’s been saddled with in favor of something as hard to pin down as Hebden himself.
Boston Phoenix |
Tony Ware |
09-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Everything Ecstatic, Four Tet
The Rise and Fall of an Indie-Punk Labelnew
Green Day funded much of the rise of Berkeley's Lookout Records, but the band will no longer keep the troubled firm afloat.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
09-20-2005 |
Music
Rough and Ruggednew
Little Brother's new mix tape dishes out a full plate of 18 gutsy and hot beats and rhymes.
Baltimore City Paper |
Makkada B. Selah |
09-19-2005 |
Reviews
Skating Downhillnew
If you're a longtime Koushik fan, Be With may leave you feeling a bit cheated. Where's the new material?
Baltimore City Paper |
Makkada B. Selah |
09-19-2005 |
Reviews
Principle Playa
Kanye West was just a kid with a relative wealth of opportunities who worked hard and became a superstar. But he's slowly opening his eyes to the woes of others.
Washington City Paper |
Sarah Godfrey |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Cold Gets Hot Againnew
There is a sense that real human emotions, rather than standard-issue adolescent rage, were at work during its production of Cold's latest album.
Illinois Times |
Matthew Everett |
09-16-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Doveman's Gentle Hodgepodgenew
The mood is melancholy, not desperate in Doveman's banjo-driven album.
Illinois Times |
Renee Spencer Saller |
09-16-2005 |
Reviews
Death Chamber Musicnew
Finland's Apocalyptica are more than a mere marriage of classical and heavy metal.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
09-16-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Loud and Proud: R.L. Burnside, 1926–2005new
Rural Burnside began recording in 1967 when musicologist George Mitchell visited his North Mississippi home to make field recordings. He stopped last December, when a heart attack robbed him of his vitality. On Sept. 1, he died.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
09-16-2005 |
Music
No Categorizationnew
If you dig the theremin -- or any other instrument -- then Barbez may be up your alley.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
09-15-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Barbez, Insignificance
Required Transformationnew
Rodney Crowell concentrates on where he's at, not where he's been.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
09-15-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Outsider, Rodney Crowell
