AltWeeklies Wire
The River's Edgenew
While Okkervil River's Will Sheff ranks among modern music's most literary songwriters, he stops short of turning lyrics into inaccessible, unfeeling academic exercises.
SF Weekly |
Andrew Miller |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hip-Hop With Substancenew
The college graduate's latest disc takes an accessible approach to underground hip-hop.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Lock Up Your Mother; Duran Duran Is Backnew
Part of Duran Duran's enduring appeal is that the group members still look good; they've aged from boyishly hot to strikingly handsome, meaning that girlhood crushes can advance seamlessly to extramarital fantasies.
Cleveland Scene |
Annie Zaleski |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Beat Meatnew
Like most of Cattle Decapitation's material, Humanure's lyrics take vegetarianism to its anti-human extremes.
Riverfront Times |
Andrew Miller |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jazz Vocalist Makes the Wall Street Journalnew
The attention is great, but Erin Bode says she hasn't noticed any sex-symbol stuff, now that she's married.
The Pitch |
Jess Minnen |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Band Bets on Debut Albumnew
Even with an appearance at the South by Southwest music festival and the imminent release of their debut album, members of Doris Henson are skeptical that they'll succeed big time.
The Pitch |
Nathan Dinsdale |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
King Menew
Vocalist/guitarist Jason Hill says he'd like to be humble about the star treatment Louis XIV is getting, but he thinks his band is the best Atlantic Records has.
Phoenix New Times |
Michael Roberts |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Minibosses Generate Buzz at South by Southwestnew
The Phoenix band The Minibosses, although still unsigned, has moved into the national spotlight.
Phoenix New Times |
Michele Laudig |
04-02-2005 |
Concerts
I Love Menew
The idiosyncratic singer-songwriter and painter Joseph Arthur says narcissism is the only way to make real art.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joseph Arthur
Stay Young and Stupidnew
It is imperative that we not let this man become Sting -- a once-deified innovator slowly buffed and sanded and neutered by constant attention from nefarious purveyors of Old People Music.
Houston Press |
Rob Harvilla |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Where Are the Women DJs?new
Female DJs try to explain why there are so few of them and the pressures they're under.
Houston Press |
Michael Serazio |
04-02-2005 |
Music
Dirty Pretty Thingnew
Shivaree's Ambrosia Parsley is anything but the torch singer next door.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Shivaree, Who's Got Trouble?
After the Partynew
Three of our weary music writers share their unique South by Southwest impressions.
Tucson Weekly |
Curtis McCrary, Linda Ray and Stephen Seigel |
03-31-2005 |
Music
Tags: Various Artists, SXSW
Songstress Hasn't Lost Sight of Qualitynew
Even with all of her endeavors into the business end of the industry, Rhonda Vincent hasn't lost sight of quality. She believes bluegrass is growing because people seek authenticity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
03-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rhonda Vincent
Jeff McLeod Fosters Oddball Sounds in Podunk, Ala.new
Alabama has long fostered a secret history of oddball music, and guitarist Jeff McLeod lies at the center of it all, picking it apart and reassembling it one warped riff at a time.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
03-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jeff McLeod, Red Tablet
