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The New Containers of Music: Keeping Up With the Changing Industry

By Gavin Dahl

Boise Weekly | April 7, 2010

The people behind the bands at this year's South by Southwest talk about breaking out of music's old ways and repositioning the industry in the digital age.

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Tags: South by Southwest, SXSW

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Playing with Himself: Spalding on Spalding in Soderbergh's Latestnew

In And Everything Is Going Fine, the insightful new documentary directed by Steven Soderbergh, Spalding Gray tells stories about his troubled family, his creative process and what he called poetic journalism.

Boise Weekly | Gavin Dahl | 04-07-2010 | Reviews

Tags: And Everything Is Going Fine, Spalding Gray, Steven Soderbergh

Idaho Donations Couldn't Support Local ACORN Worknew

When ACORN came to Idaho in 2007, its first act was bringing a traffic engineer to Latah and Nez Perce streets and getting the city to turn the intersection into a four-way stop. After growing a small membership, the operation closed unexpectedly in the fall of 2008.

Boise Weekly | Gavin Dahl | 10-21-2009 | Politics

Tags: politics, ACORN, nonprofits, Idaho, community organizers

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Patron Saints of Ominous Creepnew

Foreboding palls and incipient malevolence is singer guitarist Pall Jenkins' preferred shade, coating his band's muscular chamber roots with a gothic air. It's kind of like the electro-addled blues of Califone transplanted into Nick Cave's murky environs and given the ramshackle, wounded grace of a Tom Waits tune. It isn't called The Black Heart Procession for nothing.

Boise Weekly | Chris Parker | 12-07-2011 | Profiles & Interviews

Amazing Gracenew

Grace Potter talks about hiking up her skirt, rocking out for the troops and loving her record label.

Boise Weekly | Stephen Foster | 01-20-2011 | Profiles & Interviews

Fishing, Mudslinging and Primus' New Pathnew

Les Claypool is a man of many faces. Whether it's that of an evil pig, Planet of the Apes style primate or creepy long-nosed warlock, Claypool has been known to switch personas mid-concert, employing a variety of masks and disguises.

Boise Weekly | Stephen Foster | 09-17-2010 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Primus

On a Wing and a Songnew

The Starlings' new album is a Bright Light

Boise Weekly | Amy Atkins | 09-02-2010 | Profiles & Interviews

The Grass Fights Back: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars' Message of Hopenew

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars started playing music as an escape in a refugee camp in Africa. Today, they tour all over the world with a message of hope, doing their part to better the world's image of their home country.

Boise Weekly | Amy Atkins | 05-20-2010 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Rise and Shine, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars

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