AltWeeklies Wire
Generationals: Actor-Casternew
The Generationals play throwback pop of the best kind -- bouncy and playful, melding a variety of vintage sounds together.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
07-11-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: The Generationals
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
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
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
Foster the People: Torchesnew
This Los Angeles band's name reminds me of a similarly-titled James Taylor song ("Shower the People"). But the shiny, insistent dance rhythms on its heralded full-length debut -- featured recently on that bastion of respectability, NPR -- will immediately hip listeners to the fact that this band has little to do with the venerable folk troubadour, except for endlessly catchy melodies.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-29-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Foster the People
Okkervil River: I Am Very Farnew
Will Sheff is operating on a higher plane these days. On Okkervil River's stunning I Am Very Far, Sheff revels in ambiguous and evocative imagery that keeps pace with inspired studio wizardry.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
06-27-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Okkervil River, Will Sheff
Cerebral yet Carnalnew
Titus Andronicus hopes to avoid pillow fights on this trip to Tucson.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
06-23-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Titus Andronicus
For the Right Listenersnew
Other Lives' 'Tamer Animals' is one of the richest indie-rock albums of 2011.
Tucson Weekly |
Staff |
06-23-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Other Lives
Dawes: Nothing Is Wrongnew
Thanks to acts such as The John Henrys and Truth and Salvage Co., reviving the 1970s-era Americana rock of The Band has almost become its own subgenre. Los Angeles-based Dawes adds a little Laurel Canyon vibe, evoking the spirits of Jackson Browne and Neil Young.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-22-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Dawes
The Black Lips Are True Entertainersnew
The Black Lips get just a little bit refined on the band's new album. Maybe. Just a little
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
06-16-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: black lips
Man Man: Life Fantasticnew
For a band that essentially occupies a niche -- the Beefheart, Zappa, Waits niche -- Philadelphia's Man Man circumvents the easy dip into parody or novelty by making memorable, swaggering music that is somehow simultaneously indebted and unique.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
06-16-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: man man
Weird Al: Perform This Waynew
'Weird Al' Yankovic prepares to release a new album—yes, including Lady Gaga parodies.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-13-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Living 'Blues Cat'new
The legendary Buddy Guy refuses to even think about slowing down.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
06-13-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Buddy Guy
Fucked Up: David Comes to Lifenew
If hardcore is the music of male aggression -- which, let's be honest, it totally is -- then Fucked Up discovers hidden multitudes of feeling within it.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
06-09-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: fucked up
The Donkeys: Born With Stripesnew
California's rich musical history gives San Diego's The Donkeys plenty to draw from, and stylistically, Born With Stripes is a sampler plate, touching on sunny pop, beach rock, slacker alternative, psychedelic jams and alt-country.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
06-08-2011 |
Reviews
