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Band Bets on Debut Albumnew
Even with an appearance at the South by Southwest music festival and the imminent release of their debut album, members of Doris Henson are skeptical that they'll succeed big time.
The Pitch |
Nathan Dinsdale |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
King Menew
Vocalist/guitarist Jason Hill says he'd like to be humble about the star treatment Louis XIV is getting, but he thinks his band is the best Atlantic Records has.
Phoenix New Times |
Michael Roberts |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
I Love Menew
The idiosyncratic singer-songwriter and painter Joseph Arthur says narcissism is the only way to make real art.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joseph Arthur
Stay Young and Stupidnew
It is imperative that we not let this man become Sting -- a once-deified innovator slowly buffed and sanded and neutered by constant attention from nefarious purveyors of Old People Music.
Houston Press |
Rob Harvilla |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dirty Pretty Thingnew
Shivaree's Ambrosia Parsley is anything but the torch singer next door.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
03-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Shivaree, Who's Got Trouble?
Songstress Hasn't Lost Sight of Qualitynew
Even with all of her endeavors into the business end of the industry, Rhonda Vincent hasn't lost sight of quality. She believes bluegrass is growing because people seek authenticity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
03-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rhonda Vincent
Jeff McLeod Fosters Oddball Sounds in Podunk, Ala.new
Alabama has long fostered a secret history of oddball music, and guitarist Jeff McLeod lies at the center of it all, picking it apart and reassembling it one warped riff at a time.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
03-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jeff McLeod, Red Tablet
Disorderly Conductnew
Northwestern ethnoforgers the Master Musicians of Bukkake bring the folk tradition to its knees.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Will York |
03-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Where the Chords Have No Namesnew
Jon Garelick interviews guitarist Pat Metheny about his group's new magnum opus, The Way Up.
Boston Phoenix |
Jon Garelick |
03-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pat Metheny Group, The Way Up
Waiting for Erykahnew
The highest-debuting female solo artist in the history of the music charts told a packed room at South by Southwest that she started ControlFreaq Records "to free the slaves and the slave masters."
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
03-29-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
R&B's Tweet Returns to Bare Her Soulnew
Hopefully her sophomore album, It's Me Again, will help Tweet emerge from the shadows.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ronda Racha Penrice |
03-24-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: It's Me Again, Tweet
Like His Dad and Granddad, Hank Williams III Does It the Hard Waynew
Hank Williams III's drawl carries with it the unmistakable echo of his granddaddy, the first Hank Williams. And like his father, and friends such as David Allan Coe, Hank is an iconoclast who bleeds rebel red.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
03-24-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Homme Sweet Homme: Queens of the Stone Age Interviewnew
Repetition saturates Queens of the Stone Age's new album Lullabies To Paralyze like a recurring nightmare.
Boston Phoenix |
Ken Micallef |
03-24-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Success Via Bar Flynew
Stefan George is proud that he can make a musical living at home.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
03-24-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Surviving the Gamenew
Thirty years in, the rock 'n' roll institution is still louder and drunker than everybody else.
Cleveland Scene |
Jason Bracelin |
03-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
