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10 Can't-Lose Boozing Tunesnew
Bluesman Bob Log III claims there are only three towns in America in which female audience members haven't obliged his request to dunk a boob in his drink. So he knows something about boozing -- and the right songs for it.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bob Log III
Captain Kirk Sets Album to Stunnew
Shatner enjoys a third act afforded few in show business. He still has a film career, still writes best-selling sci-fi, still breeds award-winning horses and has a shiny new Emmy on his mantle. Yet lately he's become obsessed with mortality, disappointment, grief -- all the Big Stuff that a man eventually confronts.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
10-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Has Been, William Shatner
Fight Songs: Taking Up Arms Against Major Record Labelsnew
The members of Downhill Battle see a music industry that's broken -- bloated, outdated, money-hungry, monopolistic -- and they aim to fix it.
Boston Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
10-22-2004 |
Music
The World's on Firenew
Real Gone is a distorted, disorienting blur of noise that approximates the sound of a rusty runaway lawnmower chewing up a gravel road -- loud and mean and kerosene-caustic. Also reviewed is Nora O'Connor's Til the Dawn.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
10-22-2004 |
Reviews
Not a Single Note Rings Superfluousnew
Despite the sinister history behind "Abaddon" -- a Hebrew word for a destructive hell (and as easily a play on abandon) -- Pinback's third full-length is the duo's most assured and plotted.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
10-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Pinback, Summer in Abaddon
DJ Has Come Into His Own With New Albumnew
Put the name aside, however, because Jaku is still fraught with delicious tension. Live shakuhachi flute, Kodo drums, turntable jabs and free jazz piano all punctuate his melancholic, melodic laments.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
10-21-2004 |
Reviews
Siblings Overcome Rivalriesnew
For the past few years, Eleanor Friedberger and her brother Matt have recorded together as the Fiery Furnaces, making whimsical, shape-shifting music that has won many critical raves. But recently when Spin released its annual "Cool List," Eleanor ranked No. 39, all by her lonesome. Matt was nowhere to be found.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
10-21-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Fiery Furnaces, Blueberry Boat
Composer Explores our Collective Recollectionsnew
Such early musical encounters are the launching pad for Harbison's newest composition for the Atlanta Chamber Players, Songs America Loves to Sing, scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mark Gresham |
10-21-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Why Morrissey's Solo Albums are Better Than What He Did With the Smithsnew
Morrissey isn't trading on the legacy he created with the Smiths' between 1983 and 1987 because he doesn't need to. The cream of Morrissey's solo output is every bit as good -- if not better -- than what he recorded with the Smiths. But to believe or disbelieve, you have to listen to the records themselves.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
10-21-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Morrissey, You Are the Quarry
Trying to Make Sense of Elliott Smith's Final Albumnew
Songs From a Basement on the Hill feels like the natural progression of a gifted and obsessed musical mind with more and more resources at its disposal—and more and more time to fiddle with them, and more and more drugs to fuel the fiddling.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
10-20-2004 |
Reviews
Helmet's Other Mattersnew
A monologue disguised as a conversation disguised as an interview with Page Hamilton.
Seattle Weekly |
Andrew Bonazelli |
10-20-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Helmet, Size Matters
Seeing Futuresnew
Drummer Zach Lind says the band's fifth album is representative of what they've done in the past but with a bit more seriousness.
Phoenix New Times |
Michele Laudig |
10-19-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Shut Up and Drivenew
After three career-defining records in a row, Drive-By Truckers will probably have to sit down and make a list of things they don't want their next record to be, says frontman Patterson Hood.
The Pitch |
John Nova Lomax |
10-19-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Die, Jeff Buckley, Die!new
In May of '97, Buckley died in ludicrously romantic fashion, drowning in the Mississippi River near Memphis during recording sessions for an album. Then the posthumous Jeff Buckley album industry sprung up to cash in.
Riverfront Times |
Rob Harvilla |
10-19-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Borough Boysnew
Even in this election year, the Beastie Boys seem reluctant to let their playful guards down. The Boston Phoenix does its best to draw the amused and amusing Adam Horowitz out of his Beastie Boy shell.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Ashare |
10-19-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Beastie Boys, NA
