AltWeeklies Wire
Henry Rollins is Begging You to Votenew
"This is your country; this is your time. Do this," he says. "[People might say] 'Well, I don't know who to vote for.' Get an opinion. It's easy. They give them away like free kittens at a church bazaar."
Phoenix New Times |
Niki D'Andrea |
10-07-2008 |
Music
Blues Hound Bobby 'Blue' Bland Walks Straightnew
Like most old-school R&B guys, the word retirement doesn't mean much to the 78-year-old blues legend.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
10-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: blues, Bobby 'Blue' Bland
Willie Nelson and Lemmy Kilmister Prove Age is Just a Numbernew
Nelson's understated show was in stark contrast to the sonic bombast of 62 year-old (!) Lemmy Kilmister and his metal renegades Motorhead the Friday previous at Electric Factory.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Staff |
10-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Anthony Braxton is Not a Jazz Musiciannew
Braxton is lots of things. But he's not a pragmatist.
Philadelphia Weekly |
David Adler |
10-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Anthony Braxton
Sweden's Graveyard Shows Love For Britainnew
The group sound like on 2008's self-titled debut is riff-driven British rock, a la Black Sabbath, Savoy Brown and the Groundhogs.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
10-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Graveyard
Which Otis Jackson Jr. Do You Like?new
Jackson has renamed himself as much as anyone in the Wu-Tang Clan, though Madlib is the moniker that subsumes all others--his umbrella pseudonym, if you will.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
10-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Madlib
The Wanderers' World of Finger-Picked Acoustic Guitar Blues/Folk/Raga/Whatevernew
The rice-paper umbrella for this monolithic-on-its-face style of instrumental, mostly finger-picked guitar folk, at least since the first disc of the three-part Imaginational Anthem series came out in 2005, has been "American primitive."
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
10-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The New Queen is Not Like the Old Queen ... and That's a Problemnew
For starters, there are too many "inspirational" ballads here, ranging from the OK to the barely-tolerable-in-its-cheesiness "We Believe," in which Paul Rodgers implores us to "hear our brothers" over watery synthesizers.
Phoenix New Times |
Niki D'Andrea |
10-07-2008 |
Reviews
Antique Scream: Psychedelic Truck-Stop Rock or Three-Man Demolition Team?new
The Arizona band is picking up stakes in February 2009 and moving to Seattle, where it has a record deal with Concealed Records.
Phoenix New Times |
Serene Dominic |
10-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Antique Scream, Concealed Records
Langhorne Slim Rollicks and Ramblesnew
Langhorne Slim is a streetwalking troubadour, trailed by his faithful backing War Eagles; a folk-singing vagabond, unwinding faithless tales over shuffling Americana.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Chris Parker |
10-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Langhorne Slim
The Mystery of The Residents Isn't Who They Are -- It's Whynew
Even those who've never heard a single note of Residents music are aware of the iconic top-hatted eyeball heads and the fact that no one knows who's been making that twisted noise for more than 35 years.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Shaun Brady |
10-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Residents
Soul Train's Chicago Rootsnew
The show that put black music on TVs across America got its start in Chicago -- and even after it moved to LA, Chicago kept its own version running daily for nearly a decade.
Chicago Reader |
Jake Austen |
10-06-2008 |
Music
Scott and Cara Flaster Release Punishing Music in Beautiful Packagesnew
Seventh Rule has become something of a sanctuary for Chicago bands whose music falls outside the sometimes rigid genre boundaries of mainstream metal, from Indian’s thunderous psychedelic doom to Plague Bringer’s industrial-tinged, drum machine-powered grind.
Chicago Reader |
Miles Raymer |
10-06-2008 |
Music
'Hands Off' Music from the Ethernew
Every Saturday afternoon, unusual music fills Fondren Guitars. In addition to the sounds of people trying out guitars, there's a distinctive electronic melody reverberating through the store.
Jackson Free Press |
Larry Morrisey |
10-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Thomas Grillo, theremin
Tad Doyle Goes into Interstellar Overdrivenew
He once made music heavy enough to rumble the earth. With Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Tad Doyle aims to rumble the cosmos.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J Barr |
10-06-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
