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Another Dream Date with Damon and Naominew
Within These Walls is one of the coziest albums of the year, not just for its rainy-day production but also for the impression that the pair is totally comfortable in their bittersweet pop.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Battle to Make Conscious Hip-Hop Coolnew
Soul Genesis hopes to reengergize hip-hop by lending it a life-affirming purpose.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Kia Gregory |
10-09-2007 |
Music
Gogol Bordello's Gypsy Punk is Intoxicating and Invitingnew
The band is the living link between our past -- when mankind roamed the earth in bands and extended tribes, wild, hungry and free -- and our ever-uncertain future, the globalized polyglot network in which everyone knows everything about anything except who they are and how to live in the world.
New Haven Advocate |
Evan Brown |
10-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gogol Bordello
Why Hasn't The Go Taken Over the World?new
Detroit's preeminent rock 'n' roll band waits for its turn.
Metro Times |
Bill Holdship |
10-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Go
'Magic' in a Time of Disbeliefnew
Bruce Springsteen's latest album offers new and subversive sounds.
Birmingham Weekly |
Courtney Haden |
10-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: magic, Bruce Springsteen
Tea Leaf Green Embraces the Jam Band Scenenew
Like many bands that can't rely on the support of commercial radio, Tea Leaf Green has built its fan base through touring and word-of-mouth on the internet.
Birmingham Weekly |
Brent Thompson |
10-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tea Leaf Green
Blue Mountain or Bustnew
Three-piece band reunites for tour, possibly more.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Lew Herman |
10-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Arabella, Blue Mountain
Cannibal Corpse Stays Alive Despite Controversynew
Though the band has largely been ignored by the mainstream, Cannibal Corpse is proud to say they have always done what they wanted to do.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Grant Britt |
10-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cannibal Corpse
The Milwaukees Deliver Sounds of the Midwest, via Jerseynew
Oddly enough, the Milwaukees aren't from Milwaukee -- but it makes sense that this Jersey City quartet still chose our fine city as its namesake.
Shepherd Express |
Michael Popke |
10-05-2007 |
Reviews
Of Montreal Twists Pop Conventionsnew
Kevin Barnes talks about etiquette in hip-hop and his next album, which will be structured as one, long schizophrenic composition, comprised of eclectic 20- to 30-second snippets of music.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
10-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Of Montreal
The Cave Singers Discovers Folk Richesnew
Giving a blind listen to the haunting Appalachian-style folk hymns that come creaking out of the Cave Singers, you'd never guess that guitarist Derek Fudesco had any connection to the trend-conscious Pretty Girls Make Graves.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
10-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Cave Singers
Bettye LaVette Powers into the Futurenew
She may be gazing in a rear-view mirror on the cover of The Scene of the Crime, but LaVette is not looking back.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Chris Morris |
10-05-2007 |
Reviews
Patrick Wolf is Ambitious, Audacious, and Androgynousnew
He's also on his way to pop-music stardom.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
10-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Patrick Wolf, The Magic Position
Doin' It For Jacktownnew
Bigga Than Life describes Rainman's experience in leaving Jackson and finding success in the record industry. But taking the man out of the capital city does not necessarily take the capital city out of the man.
Jackson Free Press |
Andi Agnew |
10-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bigga Than Life, Rainman
Southern Dabblernew
Clement's colorful story is presented in a crazy folk-art quilt of excerpts.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Lee Valentine Smith |
10-04-2007 |
Reviews
