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Say Anything Throws Emo Caution to the Wind with Follow-upnew
Upping the ante is the fact that In Defense of the Genre is a dreaded double CD, and a concept album to boot.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Steep Canyon Rangers Flex Bluegrass Chopsnew
The Rangers are one of the few young bluegrass bands die-hard traditionalists don't mutter under their breath about.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Holy City Cold Heart Revivalnew
Organized by South Carolina songwriters and music enthusiasts Jamie Resch and Lindsay Holler, this year's Cold Heart Revival is an all-night event featuring seven of the region's most original alt-country, folk-pop, and Americana acts.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesseman |
11-07-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
Art Brut's Frontman Makes His Conversations Publicnew
"All the lyrics are meant to be conversational -- I'm just having different conversations, I think," Eddie Argos says.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dryw Keltz |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Art Brut
Henry Rollins Refuses to Relive the Pastnew
He proved that in 1997 when he broke up the original lineup of the Rollins Band because he thought the group had run out of creative gas. He did the same thing with the second edition in 2003.
San Diego CityBeat |
Alan Scully |
11-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Henry Rollins
The Fathomless Beauty of Blank Bluenew
Blank Blue are still a very young group, but the songs they've completed so far possess a beatific, rococo lushness -- as well as an understated funkiness.
OC Weekly |
Dave Segal |
11-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blank Blue
Adrianne Verhoeven's Smokin' Solo Debutnew
A radical departure from both the high-charging emo pop of the Anniversary, Verhoeven's former, name-making band, and her current Fourth of July and Art in Manila, Smoke Rings finds Dri singing over soulful, danceable arrangements that combine live playing and prerecorded tracks.
The Pitch |
Jason Harper |
11-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dri, Smoke Rings
Weird Al: Fun for Allnew
This first edition of Weird Al's greatest hits came out in 1988, but the parodies are such familiar songs of their times that people of any age can appreciate them.
Phoenix New Times |
Niki D'Andrea |
11-06-2007 |
Reviews
The Gospel Accordion to Yankovicnew
Tonight's agenda: See Weird Al; eat the crappiest fried food on a stick we can find; pet some stinky barn animals; go on some rickety rides; puke; buy a big, inflatable Batman (for no particular reason); and then go home.
Phoenix New Times |
Niki D'Andrea |
11-06-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: Weird Al Yankovic, concerts
Ivan Neville's World of Phunknew
It's well into midday on a Saturday afternoon, yet Ivan Neville, on the phone from his New Orleans home, sounds beat. The fact is, he's been practically tireless for the better part of the past two decades.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Lee Zimmerman |
11-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jay-Z: America's Most Overrated Rappernew
Rap's Grateful Dead? Hova? Young? The No. 1 MC of all time? None of the above.
Houston Press |
Ben Westhoff |
11-06-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: American Gangster, Jay-Z
Metalhead Mezzo Jennifer Roderer Debuts with Opera Company of Philadelphianew
If you ask dramatic mezzo Jennifer Roderer, opera and heavy metal are blood brothers.
Philadelphia City Paper |
David Shengold |
11-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
On the Couch with Folk Rockers Girlymannew
Of the many changes afoot at Camp Girlyman, drums are the ones you notice right away. As in now there are some.
Philadelphia City Paper |
John Vettese |
11-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Girlyman, Joyful Sign
Johnette Napolitano's Post-Blonde Ambitionnew
The former Concrete Blonde lead singer has a unique way of dealing with her garbage: She makes it into art.
Houston Press |
Chris Gray |
11-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Johnette Napolitano, Scarred
Dafnis Prieto's Quintet Mixes Jazz, Latin and Classical Texturesnew
Alongside the equipment commonly found in a jazz drum kit -- toms, snare, kick drum, wood blocks, high hat, cymbals -- Cuban-born drummer/composer Prieto mounts an unorthodox percussive instrument: a frying pan.
Weekly Alibi |
Mel Minter |
11-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Absolute Quintet, Dafnis Prieto
