AltWeeklies Wire
'In Rainbows' Wears 'More Rock' Crownnew
It's kind of funny that every Radiohead album released post-Kid A has been heralded as the group's "return to rock" -- as though Thom Yorke's dips into electronic music and jazz have only delayed what we really want to hear: more versions of "High and Dry."
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
10-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: In Rainbows, Radiohead
Barrio Brigadenew
Bombasta teams with San Diego's B-Side Players for a night of one-world polyrhythms.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Disco Biscuits Aren't Another Dreaded Stereotypenew
For anyone who gets bored staring at a DJ seductively twisting their knobs, or questioning if that wanker on stage with all the girls spilling drinks on his Mac is just pushing play; the Biscuits offer an organic, human mutation of electronica that channels energy like only bands can do.
Dig Boston |
Nate Leskovic |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Disco Biscuits
Black Clouds is Breaking Shit and Reminiscingnew
The guitar and drum trio from Providence and Somerville has been rattling rooms for the past three years with their brutally primal ur-garage.
Dig Boston |
Martin Pavlinic |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Clouds
Mute Math's Spirited Strugglenew
Mute Math survived a tangle with a major label and played their rock their way.
Charleston City Paper |
Alan Sculley |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mute Math
The Otherworldy Celebrationnew
Hovering from an atmospheric blend of sensual Goth-pop, orchestrated dance-rock, and analog keyboard noise, Baltimore band Celebration manage to blast out some unusual sounds.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Celebration, The Modern Tribe
Avett Brothers Still Bring Itnew
On Emotionalism, the band's latest release (and tenth since forming in 2000), they hint at their hard-rocking, pre-Avetts history, with Scott pulling out his electric Guild S100 to get crunchy in the closing minutes of "Pretty Girl from Chile."
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Avett Brothers, Emotionalism
Stook and the Jukes Make Music for the Corner Bar and, Um, Amsterdamnew
When Stook sings, it's like he's trying to bicycle a straight path on a bike with bent-up tires.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Sarah Askari |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
When Cartoon Metal Bands Go on Tournew
Dethklok, "the most brutal band in the world" and stars of Adult Swim's juggernaut of animated murder, Metalocalypse, are touring in support of their recently released Dethalbum, which is already the best-selling death metal album of all time.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Duncan Scott Davidson |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
ytcracker on Nerdcore's Beefsnew
Bryce Case Jr., aka rapper ytcracker, on his hacker past and his beef with MC Chris.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pete Freedman |
10-23-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: ytcracker
Driving's Difficult for Norway's Turdus Musicusnew
It only took two blocks of driving in Manhattan before lead vocalist Carl Christian Lein Stormer was issued a ticket. To make matters worse: Four cops rolled onto the scene and told the guys that they'd have to come to the station for questioning.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Amanda Lundgren |
10-23-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: RockCollapse, Turdus Musicus
Challenging the Limits of Inaccessible Music with Popnew
The appeal of pop-based music generally lies largely in its accessibility, its ability to capture and hold one's attention right away. But artists like Sightings, Yellow Swans and Fiery Furnaces do the opposite.
Baltimore City Paper |
Raymond Cummings |
10-23-2007 |
Reviews
Mindless Faith Releases Electro-Industrial 'Medication for the Misinformed'new
Can the music played in goth dance clubs save the world, or will it just be unjustly blamed for yet another spate of teen-age social ills? Mindless Faith hopes it's the former.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Manny Theiner |
10-23-2007 |
Reviews
Anita Fix Focuses on Redemptionnew
On one hand, Alan Lewandowski, aka Anita Fix, is just an unassuming, lanky guy with neo-primitivist guitar stylings in the vein of indie folk heroes Jad Fair, Calvin Johnson and Bill Callahan.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Manny Theiner |
10-23-2007 |
Reviews
Gowns Meld Droning Noise with Quiet Folk-popnew
Gowns, like much of the psychedelia the band resembles, often exhibit a spiritual feel that pervades even when the content of the songs strays toward the mundane.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Andy Mulkerin |
10-23-2007 |
Reviews
