AltWeeklies Wire
Exmortus Has That '80s-Metal Feelnew
The group's full-length debut, In Hatred's Flame, burns with the ambition of teenage metalheads striving to be as epic as inhumanly possible.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
09-18-2008 |
Reviews
Meet David Berman: Poet, Musician, Truth-Tellernew
The Silver Jews frontman, not unlike former Poet Laureate Billy Collins, is the rare poet who writes poetry for people who don't think they like poetry. His writing -- and his songs -- are accessible, and hold great truth for anyone who cares to pay attention.
Tucson Weekly |
Stephen Seigel |
09-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Second Look at Ben Folds Five's 'Reinhold Messner'new
At the time of its release, Reinhold Messner -- 11 largely interconnected songs stretched over 40 minutes -- was panned by many critics.
Tindersticks Recreate Their Somber Tone With Less Guysnew
In 2006, the band's membership was halved with the departure of three musicians--including Dickon Hinchliffe, who was responsible for all those sweeping strings.
Washington City Paper |
David Dunlap Jr. |
09-18-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: The Hungry Saw, Tindersticks
World-Tronic Dub: Telepath Gets Refined and Funkynew
Borrowing sounds from other cultures and mixing them into Western music is nothing new -- just think Paul Simon's Graceland or the Brazilian street drums of Rhythm of the Saints. But Asheville, N.C.-based, Philly-bred Telepath take that concept to a new level.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
09-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Donna the Buffalo Hits Double-Decade Milestonenew
Donna the Buffalo has fiddled, picked and sashayed its way through a journey of fine roots music. Make that American music.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Samir Shukla |
09-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
A-list Indie Tours are Once Again Dissing San Antonionew
For a brief shining moment, San Antonio was the hotspot for indie music in Texas. It was a glorious time, when local alt-rock fans didn't have to drive at least an hour to see their favorite bands.
San Antonio Current |
Johnston Farrow |
09-17-2008 |
Concerts
South Texas Destroyers Combine Diverse Backgrounds for Kick-ass Debutnew
South Texas Destroyers' beginnings come straight from the When Harry Met Sally handbook.
San Antonio Current |
Clint Hale |
09-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Final Warning Returns to Portland After a 22-year Hiatusnew
More than two decades after a "chemicals"-related breakup, FW is about to play Portland one last time.
Willamette Week |
Nathan Carson |
09-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: punk, Final Warning
Clapalong with Starfuckernew
All Starfucker's synth-based shine can make it easy to forget that the album is essentially the product of a singer-songwriter, but it takes a skilled songsmith to make jams that sound carefree and somber at the same time.
Willamette Week |
Nilina Mason-Campbell |
09-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Starfucker
Flip the Switch and Begin Anew with TV on the Radionew
If Cookie Mountain closed a chapter for TV on the Radio's alabaster soul, then Dear Science signifies a new direction. Tunde Adebimpe calls it "brighter and cleaner," shorn of the dense layers of distortion of the past. The music is wide open. The future is wide open.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Mosi Reeves |
09-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: TV on the Radio, Dear Science
Salsa Vets Bio Ritmo Assert Themselves with an Adventurous New Albumnew
Bionico finds the nine members exploring a funky hybrid of their traditional Puerto Rican street salsa and electronic dance music, tossing a spacey, 1970s drum machine called the Drum Fire into the sonic wash.
Style Weekly |
Brent Baldwin |
09-17-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Port O'Brien Stirs Up the Indie Kidsnew
Port O'Brien has also earned the obligatory critical comparisons to Arcade Fire — a single Yahoo! search for both bands yields 65,000 Web pages — although there's little similarity other than "I Woke Up Today" and Arcade Fire's "Wake Up" both containing wordless vocal intros.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
09-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Teeth Mountain Doesn't Re-invent the Drum Circlenew
But its members do it with a sincere appreciation for the woollier end of late-'60s radicalism.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
09-16-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Teeth Mountain
Ben Parris Gets a Solid Minimal Techno Workoutnew
Parris keeps a fairly low profile around Baltimore. Like just about everybody else of moderate success in the techno community, he does a fair amount of time in Berlin, which is to techno as Brooklyn is to avant-rock.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Byrne |
09-16-2008 |
Reviews
