AltWeeklies Wire
Plenty of Pa Rum Pum Pum Pumsnew
Sean Passmore has spent his adult life collecting Christmas albums, both the weird and the wonderful.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Carsten Knox |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sister Hazel Tries to Get on the Nice Listnew
Recorded while touring in support of 2006's Absolutely, Santa's Playlist finds the jangle-rockers taking plenty of liberties with traditional classics.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Popke |
12-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Santa's Playlist, Sister Hazel
Reliving the Newport Folk Festivalnew
The folk-blues revival was a lively movement of rediscovery. It ran circa the early-1960s through Bob Dylan's death-knell summer of '65 performance captured on this DVD.
Shepherd Express |
Martin Jack Rosenblum |
12-07-2007 |
Reviews
1956's Composed New Soundnew
At the risk of bludgeoning the band with a comparison that it is bound to resent over the next couple of months, 1956's latest album, Saboteur, sounds an awful lot like The National.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cloud Cult's Green Operationnew
The band's label, Earthology Records, which Minowa founded in 1997, is a nonprofit that donates to environmental charities. On the road, each band member keeps careful tabs on how much energy is expended or wasted; even amps are monitored for ecological output.
Shepherd Express |
Paul Smaxwill |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cloud Cult, The Meaning of 8
Blood Ceremony Channels Witchy Wickedness of Rock's Pastnew
The melodic flute focus is what separates Ceremony from a zillion weed-hazed dudes blasting Iommi riffs. It gives their otherwise gloom-drone occult rock a heightened sense of drama, imagery and femininity, something sorely lacking in most metal.
NOW Magazine |
Jason Keller |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blood Ceremony
Deadmau5 in the Housenew
If the world's core dance floors belonged to Kaskade, Trentemøller, and Claude VonStroke in 2006, this year, Deadmau5 was the name on every super-club DJ's tongue.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dennis Romero |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Deadmau5
The Soul Of The Wetlandsnew
Tab Benoit add soul to his electric swamp sound.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Grant Britt |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tab Benoit
Old-School Stylenew
Rasputina uses historical instruments and ideas in music.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Jeff Hahne |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rasputina
Progressionsnew
Jazz and smart rock are more closely aligned than normally thought, according to Denton quintet oso closo's tuneage.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jimmy Fowler |
12-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: oso closo
Shock Your Socks Offnew
The Tiger Lillies want to make you sad and remorseful for the holidays.
New York Press |
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni |
12-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Tiger Lillies
Run the Gamutnew
DVD varies from inspired to insipid.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
12-06-2007 |
Reviews
Choke Holdnew
Michelle Shocked is in the throes of a much higher power.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Lee Valentine Smith |
12-06-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michelle Shocked, ToHeavenURide
Logical Next Stepnew
Cafe Tacuba evolves as a group and challenges its listeners to follow along.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alejandro Leal |
12-06-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Cafe Tacuba, Sino
Bad Bloodnew
Morrison has too many ideas and not enough focus.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Debbie Michaud |
12-06-2007 |
Reviews
