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Michael Hurley Returns After Never Really Leavingnew

The drawling, iconoclastic singer/songwriter has released sporadic slow-burning, charming folk albums on little labels for 40-plus years -- now we're on the brink of a full-fledged Hurley revival.

Baltimore City Paper | Mike McGonigal | 11-20-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ancestral Swamp, Michael Hurley

Paquito D'Rivera: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Saxnew

D'Rivera has countless albums (and nine Grammys) under his belt, but Funk Tango is his baby -- his first self-produced CD.

Isthmus | Susan Kepecs | 11-19-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Funk Tango, Paquito D'Rivera

Sittin' on the Dock of the Past: Remembering Otis Reddingnew

Almost 40 years since Redding died in the chilly waters of Lake Monona outside Madison, Wis., we wonder how we've managed to get along so long without the Big O.

Birmingham Weekly | Courtney Haden | 11-19-2007 | Music

Preserving Black Gospel's Golden Agenew

The Black Gospel Music Restoration Project hopes to identify and acquire black gospel recordings, primarily from the music's mid-20th-century golden age, and digitize them to create a virtual encyclopedia of a musical style unparalleled in its religious zeal.

The Texas Observer | Michael Hoinski | 11-19-2007 | Music

The Pirate's Codenew

The elite file-sharing site Oink may have been a den of thieves, but online music retailers could learn from the things it did right.

Chicago Reader | Miles Raymer | 11-19-2007 | Music

Tags: oink

i see rowboats Takes Halifax by Stormnew

Earlier this year i see rowboats didn't even have a name. Nine months later, the chamber-pop quintet has sailed up the campus radio charts to become one of the city's favorite indie bands.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Mike Landry | 11-16-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: i see rowboats

My Teacher is a Rockstar?new

From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every weekday, the former Dismemberment Plan bassist Eric Axelson morphs into Mr. Axelson, a mild-mannered English teacher who quizzes his juniors on The Crucible at Columbia Heights' Bell Multicultural High School.

Washington City Paper | Jessica Gould | 11-15-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Lies and Rhetoric, Statehood

Can a Jazz Revival Bloom in San Francisco?new

The city's world-renowned jazz club heritage has always been a part of its matchless cultural identity. But there hasn't been a jazz club regularly booking national and international touring musicians into the city for more than 20 years. That all changes this month with the opening of Yoshi's San Francisco.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Marcus Crowder | 11-14-2007 | Music

Chromeo Loves the Ladiesnew

This year's hit album Fancy Footwork launched synth, keyboard and talk-box king P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) and ultra-smooth vocalist and guitarist Dave 1 (David Macklovitch) even further into the private jet-fuelled, champagne-soaked world they've created.

The Coast, Halifax's Weekly | Stephanie Johns | 11-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Chromeo, Fancy Footwork

Dooney da Priest's Fight Against Sagging Won't Worknew

Commissioned by Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, Dooney's "Pull Your Pants Up" is a four-minute plea to "urban" youths, who favor the long-popular style of dropped drawers, to get some jeans that fit, for chrissakes.

Dallas Observer | Jonanna Widner | 11-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Martin Atkins is Givin' Us Chinese Rocknew

The industrial legend goes to Beijing and brings back two albums of eye-opening music.

Chicago Reader | Miles Raymer | 11-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Martin Atkins

The Owls Go Out on a Limbnew

Before the Owls could take on the pop world, they had to face stage fright, shyness, and each other.

City Pages (Twin Cities) | Peter S. Scholtes | 11-08-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Daughters and Suns, The Owls

The Gospel Accordion to Yankovicnew

Tonight's agenda: See Weird Al; eat the crappiest fried food on a stick we can find; pet some stinky barn animals; go on some rickety rides; puke; buy a big, inflatable Batman (for no particular reason); and then go home.

Phoenix New Times | Niki D'Andrea | 11-06-2007 | Concerts

Tags: Weird Al Yankovic, concerts