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Hot Hot Heat Simmers Downnew
The group's latest effort was released on September 11 — the same day Kanye West's Graduation and 50 Cent's Curtis arrived in stores, kick-starting the most heavily hyped CD-sales slugfest in recent memory. Steve Bays had no illusions about knocking off the hip-hop icons.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
10-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Happiness Ltd., Hot Hot Heat
The Hip-hop Arm of Beatport is Ready for the Big Takeovernew
The download site has quietly revolutionized the distribution of electronic music in much the same way that iTunes has altered digital music delivery for the unwashed masses. And now, two and a half years later, the Beatport brain trusts are about to change the game again with hip-hop.
Ex–Catheter and Tall Bird Turns to a Rock-Poster Icon for Career Reinventionnew
Brian Standeford first met the Sub Pop art director Jeff Kleinsmith when Standeford's old band, the Catheters, was signed to the label in the early 2000s. Now Standeford turns to Kleinsmith for advice as he pursues poster design.
Seattle Weekly |
Brain J. Barr |
10-02-2007 |
Music
Mash-up Star Gregg Gilliss May Be About to Blow Up — Literallynew
For two months, the mash-up prodigy more commonly known as Girl Talk lived the wild life of a touring musician. Now he was about to meet a fiery end on the tarmac of Dallas Love Airport.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
10-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Girl Talk, Night Ripper
A Van Halen Fan Comes to Termsnew
Despite my aversion to reunion concerts, nostalgia erodes the best of defenses, and I've laid down the cash to see Van Halen.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
10-02-2007 |
Music
Everywhere He Goes, Devendra Banhart Sees Trailsnew
Trying to pin the man down for a normal interview is a bit like trying to send him a postcard -- by the time your message arrives, he's already somewhere else.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
10-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Devendra Banhart
Pop Montreal Shows Locals Lovenew
The annual Pop Montreal festival is imminent, promising a tidal wave of cool and unusual acts from all across the map. The second half of the festival’s name isn’t being ignored, though, with loads of locals on board, some of whom have neat news to share on the label front.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
10-01-2007 |
Music
Tags: Pop Montreal
The Pipettes Connect the Dotsnew
For a group that prides itself on attempting to recapture the ideal girl group sound of the 1960s, Brighton’s Pipettes have a very modern take on striving for pop perfection.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
10-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Pipettes, We Are the Pipettes
Patti Smith on Everythingnew
Protean punk poetess Smith offers
answers on late-'70s New York and
domesticity in Detroit, covering Kurt Cobain and the looming post-Bush clean-up job.
Montreal Mirror |
Chris Barry |
10-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Patti Smith, Twelve
The Opposite of Selling Outnew
How a month of "Margaritaville" and a bald man with a hair dryer convinced Scott Ligon to get serious about music.
Chicago Reader |
Anne Ford |
10-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Scott Ligon
Mannequin Men: A Band of Brosnew
A growing fan base is just gravy when you love your bandmates.
Chicago Reader |
Liz Armstrong |
10-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mannequin Men
New Pornographers Await the Hold Steady's Reviewnew
Despite fair-to-middling reviews for Challengers, A.C. Newman is waiting to see what Craig Finn of the Hold Steady thinks of it.
The Georgia Straight |
Alexander Varty |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Challengers, The New Pornographers
DJ Vadim's Soulfu Swaggernew
By framing his latest album, The Sound Catcher, against Brooklyn's grimy, artistic demeanor, Vadim says his latest release is his most diverse to date.
Shepherd Express |
Jenn Danko |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DJ Vadim, The Sound Catcher
Suzanne Vega on 'Beauty & Crime'new
After a six-year hiatus, she returned this year with Beauty & Crime, a paean to her hometown of Manhattan filled with images of remembrance of Ground Zero in the days following 9/11.
Shepherd Express |
Harry Cherkinian |
09-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Beauty & Crime, Suzanne Vega
Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom May Host Concerts Againnew
Under the proposed operating agreement, the organization that runs the Pabst and Riverside Theaters would also book concerts at the long-dormant, historic venue.
Shepherd Express |
Evan Rytlewski |
09-28-2007 |
Music
