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Happy Returns
David Gedge resurrects the Wedding Present for a new album and tour.
Columbus Alive |
Stephen Slaybaugh |
04-28-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Love 'Handler'new
Har Mar Superstar comes across as a cocky, brash, egomaniacal sex freak with the appearance of a lumpen wage slave busting loose at a drag show. The effect is hilarious.
Tucson Weekly |
Curtis McCrary |
04-28-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Har Mar Superstar, The Handler
Duo Gives Big Dose of Georgia Soulnew
With alternating leads and plenty of sweetly blended harmonies, the pair showcase their great voices in a stellar selection of songs, which they wrote or co-wrote, and each one is a keeper.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
04-28-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The Wrights, Down This Road
Album Captures Most Symbiotic Moments Between Artistsnew
Yearlong is sound clips from the hip, and the results vary from metallic coupling to the resonant, resolute pluck of acoustic strings flicking flecks of shimmying mica.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
04-28-2005 |
Reviews
A Psychic Forecast for Summer Coversnew
Music blogs have been ablaze with news that indie king Ted Leo covered Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone." Leo engages in a little "American Idol" worship with a lean acoustic cover of the breakup ballad, which is available apparently only over the Internet.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tray Butler |
04-28-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Mars Volta Launches a Fight Against Pop and Orgasmsnew
While the Mars Volta challenges the rules of pop song structure, the band also challenges the listener to stick with them through a vast work that's so cerebral, it can be off-putting.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
04-28-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: the Mars Volta, Frances the Mute
SF Conservatory Preps Students for Quiet Marketplacenew
The arcane system of conservatory education floods the tight market with one fairly unemployable graduating class of single-minded violinists and bassoonists and flutists after the next, and audiences for classical music have been shrinking for years.
Freed Willnew
An Imperial Teenster makes the dance pop scene with Hey Willpower.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
04-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Songs Don't All Sound the Samenew
Seattle Weekly plays Jukebox Jury with the Supersuckers.
Seattle Weekly |
Michaelangelo Matos |
04-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sympathy for the Dollnew
Devil Doll's Colleen Duffy is trying "to put the sex back into rock & roll." Ashlee Simpson she ain't.
Riverfront Times |
Jordan Harper |
04-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Devil Doll
Redemption Songnew
He has talent. But it took more than a few good songs for Hinson to win back the respect of his family. To accomplish that, he had to make the hardest move of all -- he had to go back home.
The Pitch |
Jason Harper |
04-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Micah P. Hinson
Can Dizzee Rascal And Co. Turn East London's Hip-Hop Into World Music?new
Although grime is still in its infancy, grime MCs kill hip-hop MCs on the mike -- they’re faster, cleverer, and less burdened by tradition. Dizzee Rascal is touring the U.S. as East London's ambassador of grime.
Boston Phoenix |
Nick Sylvester |
04-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Stuff of Legendsnew
Going through some hard times led John Ralston to write more music, and that led to two new albums: the just-released Needlebed and There's Always an Ambulance Around the Bend, to be issued this summer.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Zwickel |
04-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cyber Hook-ups With the Love Gorillanew
Looking for an industrial/punk chick who knows all the words to "Dancing Queen"? Try Gorilla Pop, a music-based match-making, friend-finding Web site.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
04-25-2005 |
Music
Folk Music for the 21st Centurynew
Spectacularly foulmouthed and surprisingly tender, Martha Wainwright demands to be confronted on her own terms.
Illinois Times |
René Spencer Saller |
04-22-2005 |
Reviews
