AltWeeklies Wire
Portland's Music Scene is Great, Unless You're Under 21new
Portland's MusicfestNW hosts 158 bands on 16 local stages -- but for anybody under legal drinking age those numbers dwindle to 40 and four, respectively.
Willamette Week |
Casey Jarman and Amy McCullough |
09-05-2007 |
Music
There Isn't One San Francisco Soundnew
On this four-CD set, you get all the expected hits, from Jefferson Airplane's "It's No Secret" to the Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction" to Santana's "Evil Ways." You also get the minor hits and obscure gems from dozens of bands long forgotten.
East Bay Express |
J. Poet |
09-05-2007 |
Reviews
Is La Plebe the Spanish-Speaking Operation Ivy?new
The San Francisco-based ska band distinguishes itself from its more pop-oriented forebears with a heavily politicized tone.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Hasta la Muerte!, La Plebe
Folk Duo Bethany & Rufus Prepare to Charm the Crowdnew
Before this year, the pair's best-known collaboration was 2003's Rock Island, traditional Appalachian ballads and old prison songs with trance-electronica production overtop. For this year's 900 Miles they pared it down to cello and voice, with fetching results.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 900 Miles, Bethany & Rufus
When Young Punks Grow Upnew
The forces behind Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits, Geekfest, and S.P.A.M. Records face the inevitable.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-05-2007 |
Music
Tags: Geekfest
RIAA vs. Studentsnew
In the wake of the record industry's action against students for illegal downloading, music insiders put their spin on what it means for music fans.
C-Ville Weekly |
Brendan Fitzgerald |
09-05-2007 |
Music
Joan as Police Woman Plays Ominous Indie-jazznew
Real Life puts Joan Wasser somewhere between Norah Jones and Feist -- and somewhere, there in the middle, are a few million album sales and a parcel of indie cred.
San Diego CityBeat |
Troy Johnson |
09-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Joan as Police Woman, Real Life
How Twee Is Too Twee?new
If you listen to "Stereo (mono mono)," the second song on The Brunettes' new album, Structure and Cosmetics, you may have your answer.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dryw Keltz |
09-05-2007 |
Reviews
Corey Harris Continues His Musical Anthropologynew
Harris adds a bit of Caribbean jerk to his blues tunes on Zion Crossroads.
C-Ville Weekly |
John Ruscher |
09-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Corey Harris, Zion Crossroads
Kanye West Raps on His Foundationnew
In an effort to perhaps replace the currently reigning image of himself as egocentric extraordinaire, West has developed his own institution, whose central program works to bring hip-hop curricula and music-production classes to schools.
Chicago Newcity |
Sean Redmond |
09-05-2007 |
Music
Tags: Kanye West
Dan Deacon Leads the Future Shock Scenenew
Deacon and his Baltimore cohorts create kaleidoscopic works of rainbow-colored, ADD-addled brilliance, taking the last twenty years of pop culture and mutating it into something wonderfully familiar and yet decidedly new.
Chicago Newcity |
Sean Redmond |
09-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Deacon
Too $hort, Career Counselornew
After 25 years as the nasty-mouthed purveyor of "Freaky Tales," the rapper hopes to change his legacy by helping troubled kids -- but is "$horty the Pimp" the best role model?
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
09-05-2007 |
Music
Tags: Too $hort
The Doobie Brothers Enjoy Familial Blissnew
It's been nearly 30 years since the band reached a commercial peak and 20 years since it regrouped in 1987 to begin what has been an uninterrupted run of touring and recording.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Doobie Brothers
Al Yankovic's Coming Up on 30 Years in Music. No Joke.new
From his first noteworthy success in 1979 with "My Bologna" to last year's Top 10 hit "White & Nerdy," Yankovic has sold more than 12 million albums, earned three Grammy Awards and become a fixture in mainstream popular culture.
Colorado Springs Independent |
John Benson |
09-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Weird Al Yankovic
Colorado Springs Hip-hop Scene Struggles with Policenew
Artists, promoters and club owners deal with a wave of bad publicity after two murders and a CSPD statement to local media outlets, expressing worry over the local hip-hop nights taking place at downtown bars and nightclubs.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pete Freedman |
09-04-2007 |
Music
