AltWeeklies Wire
Holly's Hobbynew
The elusive Brit who's become a garage-rock cult figure says she went about becoming a musician haphazardly, with no particular strategy. It just happened. She could have been a truck driver.
Houston Press |
Michael Roberts |
11-08-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bay Area Alt-Rock Station Becomes Hip-Hop Tastemakernew
San Francisco's Live 105 is giving rappers like Outkast their mainstream breakthrough.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
11-08-2004 |
Music
No Ray of Hopenew
The Genius of Soul allowed wine, women and song to cloud his political judgment
NOW Magazine |
Norman (Otis) Richmond |
11-05-2004 |
Music
Tags: Ray Charles
Nashville Royaltynew
Tim McGraw and Alan Jackson, vying to be kings of country, gear up for the Country Music Awards.
Boston Phoenix |
Sean Richardson |
11-05-2004 |
Music
Rockdudes Don the Bard Mantlenew
Strange Bird is every bit as smart as it is ambitious, and, more important, it rocks pretty good, too. Also reviewed is Elliott Smith's
From a Basement on the Hill.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
11-05-2004 |
Reviews
Strawbs Unpluggednew
The Strawbs grew out of the country-squire English folk music scene, but their music is also informed by early rock 'n' roll.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
11-04-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Strawbs
Life Seems Neither Morose or Obtuse Enoughnew
Type O Negative's first album in four years features all the group's hallmarks: lyrics both mournful and puerile, delivered in Steele's grave, guttural voice.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Trio Takes Much-Needed Turn Toward Substantial Songwritingnew
Slowing down the post-punk velocity and balancing raw electronic textures against stripped-down arrangements and an introspective tenor, Q and Not U has definitely come into its own.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
11-04-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: power, Q and Not U
Aussie Country Singer Back With New Albumnew
Motherhood will certainly change one's outlook on life, and it has only served to enrich the artistic spirit of Australia's alt-country darling Kasey Chambers. In preparation for her upcoming U.S. tour supporting her third CD, Chambers reflects on how life on the road merges with parenting her 2-year-old.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
11-04-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kasey Chambers, Wayward Angel
Resurrected Skinny Puppy Shows Some Teethnew
Drug abuse has taken a catastrophic toll on Canada's legendary proto-industrial outfit. 1996's The Process was released after keyboardist Dwayne Goettel's overdose death. The surviving members, long-time friends, spent the remainder of the decade estranged.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jeff Stratton |
11-02-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Skinny Puppy
Fashionable Retro Rock Has Jumped the Sharknew
Interpol is like the older brother to Killers, Scissor Sisters and Franz Ferdinand, the one who tipped his siblings off to "cool music."
Dallas Observer |
Garrett Kamps |
11-02-2004 |
Music
Rockin' in the Free World: Soundtracks for Election Night Shindigsnew
Just as you can't have a Red State Mix Tape without Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA," neither can you have a Blue State tape without Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
11-02-2004 |
Music
Voter Rapathynew
J-Kwon is merely another pinky-ringed cog in the ambitious machine known as the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network. The organization is a noble, unprecedented attempt to enchant the disenchanted. Can it succeed?
An Enigma's Enigmatic New Albumnew
Voices are manipulated to the point of unrecognizability, sometimes sounding like machine guns; sometimes like animals; sometimes like trumpets, theremins, Jew's harps, and asthmatic robot monkeys. Yet Medulla is the most beautiful CD in the singer's catalog.
Illinois Times |
René Spencer Saller |
10-29-2004 |
Reviews
Cooking With Gasnew
Damien Jurado's songs range from folk to rock and everywhere in between, and each record has a different mood from the last.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
10-28-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
