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Black Pus: Primordial Pusnew
Black Pus is Brian Chippendale’s personal pugilistic playground.
San Antonio Current |
Ray Cummings |
07-08-2011 |
Reviews
Brian Eno: Drums Between the Bellsnew
In his 40-plus years of recording, Brian Eno — ex-Glam God and innovator emeritus of ambient music — has exhibited an other-worldly panache for pitting unlikely sonic assemblages against one another.
San Antonio Current |
Roberto Ontiveros |
07-08-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian Eno
Ram Ayala’s Son and His Quest to Take Over What — He Says — Belongs to the Familynew
“I’m taking over the Ram Jam thing, there’s no doubt about that,” said Eddie Cruz, the son of murdered nightclub owner Ram Ayala.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-08-2011 |
Music
Moby: Destroyednew
The tenth studio album from the electronic architect constructs clean, sophisticated landscapes while displaying an illuminated sense of emotional desolation.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
07-08-2011 |
Reviews
Taylor Swift Show is Worthy Spectaclenew
Scrawled down her left arm in thick, black felt pen during a June 30 performance at the Greensboro Coliseum, Swift brandished a lyric from the Ingrid Michaelson tune “Breakable,” itself released only a few months before Swift’s debut album.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
07-08-2011 |
Reviews
YACHT: Shangri-Lanew
YACHT's latest is more pop, and more of a party album, than 2009's See Mystery Lights, which was a bit more avant, a bit puckish.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
07-07-2011 |
Reviews
Managed Mayhemnew
Godsmack's Sully Erna looks at life from both sides.
Colorado Springs Independent |
L. Kent Wolgamott |
07-07-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Godsmack, Sully Erna
The Bronzed Chorus Find a Spark in Old Technew
The entire affair is astoundingly rhythmic and controlled, with bursts of languorous low-end fuzz complimenting Allen’s breakneck tempos, but it’s not the cold, oblique listening experience that has come to signify chip music.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
07-07-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Great White Hopenew
Canadian rapper Classified makes a run for the border.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chris Parker |
07-07-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Home Off the Rangenew
Country singer Joe Nichols chats about labels, legacies and his abbreviated bullriding career.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kirsten Akens |
07-07-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Nichols
Natural Cultivationnew
How Gardens and Villa grew into their lush California-inspired sound.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
07-06-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gardens and Villa
Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers: Live From Austin Texasnew
Walking bass lines. Check. Quaint lyrics alluding to a bygone era. Check. A song about slick hair. Check. Ruby Dee and The Snakehandlers have compiled a "best of" collection for this live album, but it comes off more as rockabilly paint-by-numbers.
San Antonio Current |
James Bosquez |
07-06-2011 |
Reviews
He Belongs to the Bandnew
Legendary bassist Jack Casady talks Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane and Reverend Gary Davis.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
07-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jack Casady
The Rosebuds: Loud Planes Fly Lownew
It's nothing new for a songwriter to turn a crumbling relationship into an album of cathartic reflection. But when the breakup involves both halves of one band, that album becomes a conversation.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
07-01-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: The Rosebuds
DVD Explores Le Tigre’s Informed Electro-Punknew
Who Took the Bomp? follows feminist electro band Le Tigre (Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman, and gender-bending mustachioed JD Samson, now lead singer of MEN) on their 2004-2005 final tour across four continents and 10 countries after the release of This Island.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
07-01-2011 |
Reviews
