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Truest G's Eulogynew

With his most recent release, Hip Hop Is Dead, acclaimed MC Nas delivered a bitter requiem for rap -- but is it truly a time for mourning, or is a bright new morning around the corner?

Montreal Mirror | Narcel X | 04-13-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Nas

Tunes From the Cryptnew

Post-rock duo Zombi make synthesizers sound scary.

Tucson Weekly | Jarret Keene | 04-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Surface to Air, Zombi

Still Culture Jammingnew

Negativland's Mark Hosler talks about intellectual property, creativity and multimedia art.

Tucson Weekly | Gene Armstrong | 04-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Negativland, It's All In Your Head FM

Prodigal Pickernew

Fort Worth native Brad Davis has played with Marty Stuart, Earl Scruggs, Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Earle, Warren Zevon, and Willie -- so where's he been hidin'?

Fort Worth Weekly | Jeff Prince | 04-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

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Choogle Your Own Adventurenew

The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound paints a bright apocalypse.

SF Weekly | Frances Reade | 04-11-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound

Take a Lickin' & Keep on Tickin'new

Piles is the chrome-plated calculator watch of Boston math-rock bands -- no frills and totally geeky-looking, but super-utilitarian in a Leatherman sort of way.

Dig Boston | Matt Parish | 04-11-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Piles

Dark Starnew

Wrong image, wrong religion, wrong city: Meet Brother Ali, hip hop's unlikely savior.

City Pages (Twin Cities) | Peter S. Scholtes | 04-11-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

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Go West, Young Bandnew

Low Red Land: Creedence meets the Meat Puppets.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Duncan Scott Davidson | 04-11-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

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Back in Blacknew

Sistas in the Pit have few peers in rock music, but now Iggy Pop's got their back.

East Bay Express | Rachel Swan | 04-11-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

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Multiple Migsnew

Miguel Migs' new album is just one of Those Things.

Chicago Newcity | Al de Leon | 04-11-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

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Hem's Hungernew

From a lonesome ballad to a dreamy waltz, Hem's unique, lush sound is impossible to pigeonhole.

Port Folio Weekly | Jim Morrison | 04-11-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

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Ted Leo's Old World Outlooknew

What's most interesting about all of Leo's likenesses is that none of them are Americans -- he really does look, sing and play more like people like Elvis Costello, Billy Bragg and Joe Strummer than he does his fellow New Jerseyite Bruce Springsteen.

Houston Press | John Nova Lomax | 04-10-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists