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Bluesy Enough

Jason Ricci looks more like a character out of an alternative rock magazine than a blues cat, but critics describe him as one of the top virtuoso harmonica players in the South.

Charleston City Paper | T. Ballard Lesemann | 09-20-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Burnin' & Blowin', Jason Ricci

Kick Back and Kick It In

The Charleston-based traveling band specializes in an earthy, bluegrass-tinged mix of Americana, rock, and power-pop.

Charleston City Paper | T. Ballard Lesemann | 09-20-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Blue Dogs, Halos & Good Buys

Seven Mary Three Dislocates

Singer/guitarist Jason Ross discusses the rock quartet's latest album and 2005 tour.

Charleston City Paper | T. Ballard Lesemann | 09-20-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Seven Mary Three, Standard and Stalwarts

Kieran Hedben’s unwillingness to reside at any one extreme defines his fourth Four Tet album, which eschews the "folktronica" style he’s been saddled with in favor of something as hard to pin down as Hebden himself.

Boston Phoenix | Tony Ware | 09-20-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Everything Ecstatic, Four Tet

Cold Gets Hot Againnew

There is a sense that real human emotions, rather than standard-issue adolescent rage, were at work during its production of Cold's latest album.

Illinois Times | Matthew Everett | 09-16-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Sam, and, ward, Scooter, A Different Kind of Pain, Cold, drummer, McCandless

Death Chamber Musicnew

Finland's Apocalyptica are more than a mere marriage of classical and heavy metal.

Montreal Mirror | Rupert Bottenberg | 09-16-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Apocalyptica, cellos, Eicca Toppinen

No Categorizationnew

If you dig the theremin -- or any other instrument -- then Barbez may be up your alley.

Tucson Weekly | Gene Armstrong | 09-15-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Barbez, Insignificance

Required Transformationnew

Rodney Crowell concentrates on where he's at, not where he's been.

Tucson Weekly | Gene Armstrong | 09-15-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Outsider, Rodney Crowell

Musician's Work Characterized as Warm, Organic Soundnew

Everything Ecstatic changes the pace dramatically and emerges as a distinctly more beat-driven affair. Stuttering percussive clatter implodes against blissful, slowly morphing textures like a Diebold safe dropped into a pond, rippling with deep grooves.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Chris Parker | 09-15-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Everything Ecstatic, Four Tet

Scandinavian Psych-Folk-Rock Finds Wide Appeal With Dungennew

Dungen is neither mythical nor antiquated; though on first listen some might swear its latest album was recorded while rock 'n' roll was still in its experimental teens.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Tony Ware | 09-15-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Dungen, Ta Det Lugnt

Supergroup Lives Up to Its Prefixnew

When word got out that Themselves, the central unit of the experimental hip-hop collective Anticon, were grouping with the glitch-pop magnates of Notwist, fans wanted to know what a band like this could possibly sound like.

Dig Boston | Michael Brodeur | 09-14-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: 13 & God

Is Practice Making Them Less Weird? Weird.new

As always with Deerhoof, the question with every new album is: How will they pull this off live? The answer remains generally the same: They won’t bother.

Dig Boston | Matt Parish | 09-14-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Deerhoof