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They Might Be Giants Switch Gears Yet Againnew
The band recently made a daring move, undertaking a surprising, unexpected collaboration with notorious production team the Dust Brothers.
Charleston City Paper |
Alan Sculley |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: They Might Be Giants
Radiohead Fires a Broadside at the Recording Industrynew
Already bands like Oasis, Nine Inch Nails, and Jamiroquai have said they'll follow Radiohead's lead and let fans choose the price for their next albums.
Charleston City Paper |
Steven Lacy |
10-31-2007 |
Music
Tags: In Rainbows, Radiohead
The Sean Hayes Codenew
A staple in the Bay Area's tightly knit syndicate of songwriters, Hayes hits the road in support of his latest release, Flowering Spade.
Chicago Newcity |
K. Tighe |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Flowering Spade, Sean Hayes
Behind the Scenes With Bernard Haitink and the Chicago Symphonynew
A Dutch treat in the Windy City.
Chicago Newcity |
Dennis Polkow |
10-31-2007 |
Music
Mariza Modernizes Portuguese Fadonew
At 34, and with an evocative, heartbreaking vocal range, Mariza has emerged as the face and the voice of contemporary Portuguese fado, a modern revivalist with roots planted firmly in the music's tradition and history.
OC Weekly |
Daffodil J. Altan |
10-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Phoenix Rave Scene Loses a Hot Spotnew
The old warehouse on South Fourth Avenue was a rarity for Phoenix, and not just because it's a cavernous old building in a city that has so few of them. What really made it unusual: It was a place to rave in a town where raving is hard to do.
Phoenix New Times |
Sarah Fenske |
10-30-2007 |
Music
E.F.O.N. Spreads the Underground Lovenew
Every independent music scene needs a selfless character to help shine the light on other artists -- even when it detracts from his own spotlight. As far as Palm Beach hip-hop goes, that catalyst is a producer/MC by the name of E.F.O.N., but this time, he gathered underground singles from around the country.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
10-30-2007 |
Reviews
Joy Division's Expanded Reissuesnew
With Rhino's expanded reissues of the dour Manchester quartet's three albums -- three different concerts (and one sound check) are tacked onto bonus discs -- plus noted rock videographer Anton Corbijn's new Ian Curtis biopic Control, Joy Division's moment has officially arrived.
Houston Press |
Chris Gray |
10-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Control, Joy Division
Luciana Souza Gets Personalnew
Every so often, the right song meets the right singer at the right time, producing a transcendent performance that marries them forever. Souza found it with Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Waters of March."
Weekly Alibi |
Mel Minter |
10-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Luciana Souza, The New Bossa Nova
Other People's Propertynew
The world may never run out of songs, but you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise. How else do you explain the approximately eleventy-bajillion covers albums released in 2007 -- including ones from Shawn Lee, Ann Wilson, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss?
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
10-30-2007 |
Music
Ian Nagoski Brings Us Obscure World-Music 78snew
That elusive journey to another time and place purely via ephemeral music is what Nagoski aims for with The Black Mirror. It's a 24-track tour through obscure Syrian, Thai, Balinese, Indian, and various Eastern European folk music, with liner notes providing the best information Nagoski could uncover about the recordings, the music, and the artists.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
10-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hail Sinead, the Lord is With Theenew
For all their enduring words, the prophets and psalmists were mad in every sense, raging one minute and appeasing the next. If Sinead O'Connor had been born 2,700 years earlier, she would have fit right in.
Philadelphia City Paper |
M.J. Fine |
10-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Sinead O'Connor, Theology
Gillian Grassie Wants You to Hear Her Harp Beatnew
Grassie gives as much respect to singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell and Ani DiFranco as she does to such harpists as Catriona McKay and Rudiger Oppermann, and she wants to counter the preconception that her instrument's for putting people to sleep.
Philadelphia City Paper |
M.J. Fines |
10-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gillian Grassie, Serpentine
'Interplay' Captures Coltrane in a Collaborative Rolenew
While this new box set doesn't contain any previously unreleased tracks or outtakes, it does present a wide selection of lesser-known material in one lavish package.
Shepherd Express |
Saby Reyes-Kulkarni |
10-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: John Coltrane, Interplay
Radiohead Embraces the Invisible Electro-Music Agenew
With an introspective web of humming sound that ranges from heaving convulsive rock to softly layered dreamscapes, Thom Yorke leads a more personal campaign on this outing, apparently nearing exhaustion with the pointed social cynicism of recent releases.
Shepherd Express |
John Figlesthaler |
10-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: In Rainbows, Radiohead
