AltWeeklies Wire
Beyond the Mainstreamnew
Jana Hunter takes her lovely folk/blues songs around the country.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jana Hunter, There's No Home
Golden Anniversarynew
The principals in Hot Tuna celebrate 50 years of performing American roots music together.
Tucson Weekly |
Jim Lipson |
06-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hot Tuna
Hyphy 4 Christnew
Co-opting the hip-hop genre for evangelical purposes, Rodney Washington is using hyphy's lingering street popularity in an attempt to lure kids away from the very things its songs espouse: drugs, crime, and premarital sex.
East Bay Express |
Kathleen Richards |
06-20-2007 |
Music
Soundtrack for Summernew
Fourteen songs to party, love, and road-trip by.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
06-20-2007 |
Music
Queer as Popnew
Dresdon Dolls is among the acts plugging in for gay rights on the "True Colors" tour.
San Diego CityBeat |
AnnaMaria Stephens |
06-20-2007 |
Music
Jim Henson's Lasting Music Legacynew
You can't talk Muppets music without discussing Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem band.
Small Outposts Rule Online MP3 Salesnew

No longer the domain of a handful of power-brokers, online digital retail's future is most clear in little shops -- here are a few of the best.
Xavier Rudd's Hippy-dippy Convictionnew
The Australian is a very different human being.
San Diego CityBeat |
Jed Gottlieb |
06-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Xavier Rudd
Rocking the Invisible Guitarnew
Air guitar, once an embarrassing secret or a teenage hobby, is now an international phenomenon.
Sons of Bill's Excellent Adventurenew
Charlottesville rockers head to the Pacific, send postcards home.
C-Ville Weekly |
Brendan Fitzgerald |
06-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sons of Bill
Nelly Furtado's World Musicnew
Her latest effort brought her back from obscurity.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
06-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Nelly Furtado
Lily Allen Gets the Last Laughnew
Like other British women before her, the pop star uses words as a weapon.
Mountain Xpress |
Melanie McGee Bianchi |
06-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lily Allen
Putting 'Fun' Into 'Funeral'new
Funeral for a Friend tries bucking post-hardcore trends by going the concept-record route.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jason Bugg |
06-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Funeral for a Friend
The 69 Eyes: Goth 'n' Rollnew
For the past couple years The 69 Eyes have been gathering steam in America, but the band's been a fixture in Helsinki for ages.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
06-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The 69 Eyes
40 'Sgt. Pepper'-credited Innovations Exposed!new
Many of Sgt. Pepper's accepted innovations are now known to come from somewhere else.
Metro Times |
Serene Dominic |
06-19-2007 |
Music