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Alberta Metalheads Part with Pub After Fightnew
A local metal promoter is looking for a new venue after a fight broke out during a Sept. 13 show at the Thirsty Dog Pub, where she'd been booking shows for about five months. "It was like a scene from Road House."
Fast Forward Weekly |
Jeremy Klaszus |
09-25-2008 |
Music
The High and Mighties Might as Well Call Their Reggae 'Retread'new
Like every other group currently commercializing a pop reduction of reggae, Chapel Hill band The High and Mighties cites Bob Marley as its forefather.
Pity for Black Kidsnew
The internet is a filterless radio, and bands like Black Kids don't stand to win.
INDY Week |
Robbie Mackey |
09-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Kids, Partie Traumatic
Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip is on the Best MySpace Date Evernew
Hip-hop might have been born in the Bronx, but its newest generation of superstars is coming straight outta Essex, U.K.
New York Press |
Billy Jam |
09-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
In a Dark Room with Future Islands, Our Man Sees the Lightnew
Future Islands are riding a synthesized post-wave and might help to subside the sarcastic tides (a black water, too often mistaken for irony by a culture that disguises brazenly ugly sentiments with gushes of its artistic merit) cascading into the strands of hipsterdom.
New York Press |
Greg Burgett |
09-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Future Islands
Nightwish Brings Operatic Training to Rocknew
It sounds like a metal version of Yes mixed with Heart and Fleetwood Mac. "I'll take that as a compliment," says Tuomas Holopainen, composer/keyboardist for the Finnish orchestral metal band Nightwish.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Grant Britt |
09-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pinback's Rob Crow Goes Beyond Busynew
When he's not performing, he's recording with any one of numerous bands he has his hands in. In fact, Crow is involved in so many projects, he isn't even sure of the exact number.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Jeff Hahne |
09-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Former Team Dreschy Kaia Wilson Talks About Her Solo Albumnew
Wilson, legendary frontwoman of Team Dresch and the Butchies, launched her newest solo album four months ago, but the CD-release show has lingered till this week, and her upcoming tour is as part of Amy (Indigo Girls) Ray’s band.
Willamette Week |
Jay Horton |
09-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Godmakesmonkeys, Kaia Wilson
The Fli Boiz are Portland's Cool Boys with a Twistnew
The duo's uncanny resemblance to the Cool Kids, two '80s-enamored MCs from Chicago who have recently hit the big time, is difficult to deny. But where the Kids avoid the bling of hip-hop's hedonistic side, the Boiz embrace it.
Willamette Week |
Sarah Moskowitz |
09-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Fly Bois
For Jenny Lewis, It's All About the Castingnew
When the former child star plays Lucinda Williams, Blue period Joni Mitchell, or even Stevie Nicks-led Fleetwood Mac, she nails the role, but when she's cast against type, the results aren't so hot.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-24-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue
Kings of Leon Find Inspiration in Americananew
With songs conjuring trips along dusty back roads or, at the very least, a night chalking up pool cues, Only by the Night doesn’t veer far from the southern-fried rock Kings listeners have come to expect.
San Antonio Current |
Cynthia Hawkins |
09-24-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Kings of Leon, Only by the Night
Why My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything to Dismiss: A Fan's Sonic Memorynew
I don't even know if I'm going to see MBV this week. If I don't, I suspect I'll still hear their noise, or feel it, from across town. If I can touch that instrumental passage of "You Made Me Realise," I'll grab on to a point within it. That point will be my nostalgia. It'll levitate, compress, and then shatter.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
09-24-2008 |
Music
My Bloody Valentine's Tour Points to Pitfalls of a Generations's Reunion-Fueled Nostalgianew
Which My Bloody Valentine will reappear this fall when Kevin Shields and company tour the states for the first time since 1992? The feedback scientists who briefly earned the title of "Loudest Band Ever," or the shaggy shoegazers who fans, including myself, know and adore?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Mosi Reeves |
09-24-2008 |
Music
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip are as Screwy as They Soundnew
Before this album arrived on my doorstep, what little I'd heard through tinny laptop speakers sounded like a nitrous-oxide Streets.
San Diego CityBeat |
David Tow |
09-24-2008 |
Reviews
Flogging Molly's Matt Hensley Finds the End of the Rainbownew
A year and a half ago, Flogging Molly accordionist Matt Hensley felt like he had to make a choice: fatherhood or the band.
San Diego CityBeat |
AnnaMaria Stephens |
09-24-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Float, Flogging Molly
