AltWeeklies Wire
Remixing Their Outlooknew
Interpol guitarist Daniel Kessler tells what led the band to do a remix album.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bettina Swigger |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Interpol
The Ghost in the Consolenew
The Kills' Jamie Hince hunts down Sly Stone's Flickinger mixing board.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kara Luger |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Kills
Kick Out the Jam Bandsnew
Alan Sparhawk and Mark Kozelek form a supergroup -- minus the incessant wanking.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Retribution Gospel Choir
Keepin' It Realnew
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings keep old-school funk alive.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Band Rebounds After a Series of Setbacksnew
The BoDeans' latest release and second double live album, Homebrewed, was recorded at Milwaukee's historic Pabst Theater, and it's their first for Back Porch Records, a roots-rock label that's also based in the beer-centric River City.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Andrews |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Homebrewed, The BoDeans
Band Transitions From Scabrous Punks to Balladeersnew
Scotland's Idlewild has inadvertently reinterpreted American indie rock, as only a band that's on the outside looking in can.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jon Garrett |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Idlewild, Warnings/Promises
DJ Hits the Road with New Tools, Tunes and Tweaksnew
Z-Trip is hitting the road with new tools, tunes and tweaks in an attempt to not only strengthen his DJ reputation, but also reintroduce himself as a producer, showcasing material from his recently released Shifting Gears full-length.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DJ Z-Trip, Shifting Gears
World's Biggest Little Band Angles for 15 More Minutesnew
Awww shit, London's Bloc Party has groupies to haul around their stuff and they get to go to Vice parties? The foursome must be blowin' up.
Dig Boston |
Luke O' Neil |
09-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bloc Party
Putting the Ego in Alter Egonew
Kool Keith doesn't mess around, proclaiming himself the number one producer in the land and the most powerful artist in hip-hop.
Dig Boston |
Chris Farone |
09-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Scotch Guardnew
Alasdair Roberts talks about his folk preservations, modern revisions and new collection of centuries-old death ballads.
Columbus Alive |
Stephen Slaybaugh |
09-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Quartet Returns to Give Thanksnew
There are plenty of moments across Sigur Ros' catalog that could be described as hanging in mid-air, but not particularly playful. Yet Takk (Icelandic for "thanks," a word Sigur Ros signs to any autograph) is like a series of little children's stories to the band.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
09-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Field of Screamsnew
John Brannon's howl, equal parts primal power and melodic reach, has ripped air for nearly 25 years, first with hardcore pioneers Negative Approach, then with blues-punkers Laughing Hyenas, and now with the steamrolling quartet Easy Action.
Baltimore City Paper |
Marc Masters |
08-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Glasgow’s Best Band Is Growing Up So Fast!new
While Sons and Daughters proclaim a fondness for that suddenly very popular first wave of post-punk, their sound is far more raw, aggressive and surly than today’s coiffed roster of ripoffs -- forget Chairs Missing, this is chairs smashing.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
08-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sons and Daughters
Brit-Poppers a Little Bit Literatenew
Idlewild's Roddy Woomble discusses that undefined point where a song becomes something more than a sequence of impulses.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
08-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Idlewild
Missy's Recipe for Funnew
Missy Elliott is one of the few artists whose videos are still considered events. They are gleeful, frantic, and full of delicious visual puns and quirky effects.
Miami New Times |
Sam Chennault |
08-29-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
