AltWeeklies Wire
Monster Pussy: Tails of the Citynew
After a handful of cassette-only releases and a 7-inch single, Tucson Area Music Awards honoree Monster Pussy has finally unleashed its debut album, and Tails of the City is chock-full of quirky odes to various U.S. cities, good friends and activities in the Old Pueblo.
Tucson Weekly |
Casey Dewey |
10-01-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: monster pussy, Tucson punk
Phish Storynew
A fight on Shakedown Street leaves one man in stitches and another fearing for his family.
Blair Crimmins Won't Play Wallpaper Musicnew
Blair Crimmins and his troupe have stayed busy this year playing around the Southeast in support of a new EP titled State Hotel. The single "Old Man Cabbage" is a steamy number with an exotic melody.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
09-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Spontaneous Combustionnew
Jazz legend Art Lande keeps the art of piano improvisation alive
Colorado Springs Independent |
Cicily Janus |
09-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Built to Thrillnew
Ladytron synthesizes its art-pop masterpiece
Colorado Springs Independent |
Tom Lanham |
09-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Broad-Ranging Hardly Strictly Bluegrassnew
The Bay Area's best music festival returns.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-29-2011 |
Concerts
Tiger by the Tailnew
Nick 13 tracks down his own Bakersfield sound.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Tom Lanham |
09-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
DJ Shadow: The Less You Know, the Betternew
DJ Shadow's last outing, 2006's The Outsider, was a schizophrenic mixtape split between Bay Area crunk and laborious retreads.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
09-29-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: DJ Shadow
Don’t Throw Najee Under the Kenny G Busnew
Najee may hesitate to call his music "smooth jazz," but there are few things smoother than when the saxophonist and his bass player trade licks in the opening minutes of his 1986 hit, "For the Love of You." It's probably the slow, heavily reverbed drum fills and electronic snare pop that sentence Najee to inevitable Kenny G comparisons, but that curly haired sax man can't touch his peer when it comes to adding funk and soul into the mix.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
09-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Founding Father of H-Town Rap Keeps Pluggin’ in ‘Wicked’ Industrynew
Learning about K-Rino (born Eric Kaiser) involves re-evaluating what it means to be hardcore. All Music Guide attributes 24 releases to him in 16 years.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
09-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Namoli Brennet: We Were Born to Risenew
Tucson singer-songwriter Namoli Brennet's impeccable ninth album places her firmly among the best folk-rock artists in the country. It's sophisticated, witty, well-written and beautifully recorded. Brennet recorded almost every instrument herself in her home studio; drummer Todd Chuba sits behind the drum kit on three tracks.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
09-28-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Namoli Brennet
Say Revenge! debuts with a fun — and furious — shit-talking albumnew
The women of Say Revenge! — half of the co-ed foursome — are the type that, no matter what they say to you, always seem on the verge of laughter.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
09-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mixed Vocabularynew
The Stone Foxes look to the blues as they craft their Southern-style rock.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
09-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Stone Foxes
Dwarves: The Dwarves Are Born Againnew
Chicago's seminal punk/thrash band Dwarves has foundered since the mid-'80s, partially due to aggressive genre-hopping and antagonizing, politically incorrect lyrics and cover art. Since the 1990 classic Blood Guts and Pussy, the band has produced a number of albums in which erratic style changes have caused dissention among its punk-rock fan base.
Tucson Weekly |
Billups Allen |
09-28-2011 |
Reviews
The Many Lives of Celsius 7new
Famous for his theatrics, the Oakland rapper is now cultivating a more serious, focused persona.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
