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Sam Beam Spills Some Iron & Winenew

From the first notes of The Shepherd's Dog's "Boy With a Coin," it's clear that songwriter's songwriter and Texas transplant Sam Beam is no longer content to be classified as just another bedroom recording artist.
Austin Chronicle  |  Dan Oko  |  09-27-2007  |  Profiles & Interviews

Amy Millan Goes Solo

Amy Millan, the elfish voice behind Stars and collaborator with Broken Social Scene, worked for three years on her debut solo album -- surprisingly, Honey From the Tombs is the furthest thing from indie rock.
Austin Chronicle  |  Darcie Stevens  |  10-07-2006  |  Reviews

Brass-Band Funeral: Jazz and Destructionnew

Katrina brought home what a lot of us tourists sensed implicitly for years: that the New Orleans cultural scene owes much of its vitality to a community that lives on the edge of subsistence, for which that culture isn’t merely "entertainment," but truly a matter of life and death.
Boston Phoenix  |  Jon Garelick  |  09-13-2005  |  Disasters

Worst Campaign Journalists Advance in Round 2 of Wimblehacknew

There is something negative going on when a paper like The New York Times runs the same campaign article hundreds of times, quoting the same 30 or so campaign characters, with only the dateline and the crowd photo changing. Second part of series.
New York Press  |  Matt Taibbi  |  10-13-2004  |  Media

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