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Sick of Sarah Take on the Music Machinenew
The quartet, all in their mid-twenties, play a catchy, jumpy sort of pop rock, as if Tegan and Sara were reinvented as emo beginners.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Sarah Askari |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bittersweet, Sick of Sarah
Del the Older, Wiser Homosapiennew
The task for Del's upcoming fifth solo disc The 11th Hour wasn't to cage the beast, but to channel his abundant energy into stronger focus and broader appeal, made possible by a rigorous study of music theory and composition.
Dig Boston |
Martin Caballero |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Kathleen Grace, a Late Bloomer, Blossomsnew
She is in the vanguard of a small but exciting movement of young jazz singers who are, in her words, stepping "outside the box of the American Songbook into the world of original music."
Port Folio Weekly |
Jim Newsom |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kathleen Grace, Songbird
Jennifer Johns: Soul with Swaggernew
The singer shakes it up with new confidence and a remarkable new album.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jennifer Johns
Intervision's Virtual Insanitynew
Paul Creighton and company wax chill and sexy, offering funk-laced jazz with a decidedly futuristic bent, making dance-soul fusioneers Jamiroquai an easy comparison.
Willamette Week |
AP Kryza |
10-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Intervision, Shades of Neptune
Leigh Marble Opens Up, Gets Dark.new
Pray you're never Leigh Marble's muse. If it doesn't work out, he will write the most hurtful, yet somehow tender, song about the whole mess, and it will burn.
Willamette Week |
Amy McCullough |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Leigh Marble, Red Tornado
Ike Dola is Ready to Break Out of the Farm Leaguesnew
The 23-year-old from East Oakland is widely considered the next local MC who will blow up around here.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Garrett Caples |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ike Dola
Bruce Springsteen Lets Loose on 'Magic'new
It has the garage-band fervor of The River, amplified by a higher level of literary sophistication, and abetted by Springsteen's rare willingness to let his jangle-pop flag fly.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
10-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: magic, Bruce Springsteen
Lucero Went from Country-Rock to Springsteen-esquenew
The comparisons to the Boss are valid, but not for the obvious reasons.
San Diego CityBeat |
Cullen Hendrix |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cafe Tacuba's 'Sino' Tops the Band's Albumsnew
When Cafe Tacuba came out of nowhere (Mexico City, to be exact) in 1992, few realized that we were witnessing the arrival of the New Messiahs of Spanish-language rock.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cafe Tacuba, Sino
Jesca Hoop is Destiny's Childnew
The singer followed fate to strange places before finding Kismet.
San Diego CityBeat |
AnnaMaria Stephens |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jesca Hoop, Kismet
Joe Ely Does Some Reflectingnew
This year he's released a pair of albums on his Rack'Em label, Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch and Silver City. The two discs are in some sense the soundtrack to his new book, Bonfire of Roadmaps, which compiles his musings from a life spent on the road, beginning when he was 17.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parler |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Ely
The New Pornographers Get Wise & Maturenew
"I'd rather have people pissed off at us for changing than be pissed off at us for not changing," says chief Pornographer Carl Newman.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Challengers, The New Pornographers
Introducing Wilco's Musical Leader, Nels Clinenew
Since the May 2007 release of Sky Blue Sky, Wilco's sixth proper album, the searing sounds of distorted jazz guitar -- courtesy of lead guitarist Nels Cline -- have wreaked impressive havoc on many eardrums.
C-Ville Weekly |
Staff |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Wilco
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir Sings a New Chicago Soundnew
It's an exhilarating time for Chicago music -- more specifically for bands that are about to burst on to the international scene with a vengeance like the Choir.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
