AltWeeklies Wire
Up, Down, Out and Aboutnew
With their sophomore smash A Weekend in the City, U.K. dance-punk darlings Bloc Party rock around the clock, taking in the good times, bad vibes, wasted hours and magic moments.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
03-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bloc Party
Are Major-Label Deals Enough?new
As some St. Louis rappers ink major-label contracts, only to be left in the dark, others take their future into their own hands.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
03-16-2007 |
Music
Fucked Up and Beautifulnew
Living history and moving on with Modest Mouse.
Willamette Week |
Amy McCullough |
03-15-2007 |
Reviews
Bizarre Pop Scientistnew
Charting Andrew Bird's unconventional path toward rock stardom.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
03-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Andrew Bird
The New Hair Metalnew
You wouldn't know it to look at the mosh pit, but My Chemical Romance has quit playing punk.
Chicago Reader |
Miles Raymer |
03-13-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: My Chemical Romance
'The Whole Houston Sound'new
Honky-tonk hero explores his hardscrabble Houston roots with an autobiography and a CD.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
03-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Johnny Bush
Home Standnew
A decline in sales forces Suburban Home Records to scale back.
Loud, Lew, Loathed ... and Loving Itnew
A lot of bands claim to tear their audiences a new one -- Montreal's Trigger Effect can proudly claim they actually have.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
03-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Trigger Effect
The Snorification of Indie Rocknew
In place of gutsy songwriting is a benign Axis of (Evil) Indie Influences -- David Byrne, Gordon Gano, and, now more often, Bruce Springsteen -- fueling a disturbingly dull trend of uniform mid-tempo crapola.
All of the Joy, None of the Jesus
Singer-songwriter Susan Werner writes gospel music without using the gospel.
Eugene Weekly |
Suzi Steffen |
03-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: building community, folk, gospel, helping people, Iowa, jazz, losing faith, music, review, standards, susan werner, The Gospel Truth
Rock in a Hard Placenew
Could Atlanta produce the next R.E.M.?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Lee Valentine Smith |
03-08-2007 |
Music
To Here Knows Whennew
Thrushes keeps the shoegaze flame burning all these years later.
Baltimore City Paper |
J. Bowers |
03-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sun Come Undone, Thrushes
Open the Doornew
The Crown Prince of Soul is 100, and you'd better believe it.
Chicago Newcity |
Patrick Roberts |
03-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Crown Prince of Soul
Elephant 6's Memorynew
New releases from the Apples in Stereo and Of Montreal pick up the thread of a legendary collective.
SXSW, Wtf?new
The evolution of SXSW into the goliath it is today might or might not have been inevitable, but once its momentum started, it was difficult to stop.
Houston Press |
Jonanna Widner |
03-05-2007 |
Music
