AltWeeklies Wire
The Careful Dynamics of Shearwaternew
Like any great album, the subtleties on Rook are what make it mesmerizing.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
06-26-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Rook, Shearwater
Jeremy Jay's Present Vintage Rock on His Debut Full-lengthnew
Recorded by Calvin Johnson at his Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, Wash., A Place Where We Could Go presents Jeremy Jay as the K Records version of Buddy Holly--classic, vintage rock, but delivered with that K Records raw and relaxed aesthetic, which, said Jay, comes partly from the vintage equipment in Johnson's studio.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
06-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Fleet Foxes Embrace Varied Source Materialsnew
The group's sound is an intricate architecture of baroque, psychedelic rock with addition of the infectious melodies of classic pop music. They accomplish this with not only the standard weapons of rock 'n' roll, but with instruments such as tympani, mandolin, organ, dulcimer and koto.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fleet Foxes
David Berman Finds Comfort in the Twangnew
If Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is any indication, David Berman's fortunes are improving. Compared to 2005's knotty, uneven Tanglewood Numbers – which arrived on the heels of an extended period wherein the poet and Silver Jews frontman grappled with medical and substance-abuse problems – it's relatively frisky and oblique.
Orlando Weekly |
Raymond Cummings |
06-26-2008 |
Reviews
Orlando Indie Giants Mumpsy Sing Canary's Songnew
It's possible that no other indie band in Orlando packs as much potential as Mumpsy. Named after a cat in a children's book, they're the union of industriousness and talent, a recipe that's recently been paying off.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
06-26-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mumpsy, Cat & Canary
Rapper Vast Aire Relaxes, But Only Slightly, on New Albumnew
Cannibal Ox's 2001 opus, The Cold Vein, doesn't translate universally. In a climate like Central Florida – where cold means covered shins and shoulders, not bitter blasts of wind that leave exposed skin frostbitten – the translation can be even further out of reach.
Orlando Weekly |
Brandon Perkins |
06-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Vast Aire, Dueces Wild
This Little Undergroundnew
In this new reality, the Middle East is in the global spotlight like never before. Although American awareness of the region is at a zenith, our view of it continues to be slanted, narrow and impersonal. All the more reason to thank whoever it is you worship for a film like Heavy Metal in Baghdad, the provocative new Vice Films documentary.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
06-26-2008 |
Music
Kid-friendly Harry and the Potters Want Your Help for 'The Best Show Ever'new
The Potters asked fans to show up early, decorate the venue and bring the toys, props and games to turn the show into what it hopes is "the best show ever." With volunteers changing at every show, each gig will be a unique experience.
INDY Week |
Andrew Ritchey |
06-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Valient Thorr's Valient Himself Talks Motorhead, Mortality and 'Immortalizer'new
As Himself was preparing to record Thorr's fourth album, he was undergoing a battery of tests as he prepared to undergo surgery to give his kidney to his father.
INDY Week |
Spencer Griffith |
06-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Nachtmystium Unsettles Black-Metal Formulas on its New Albumnew
In the same way that no one thinks of Ride the Lightning as just a thrash album or Remission as just a metalcore album, on Assassins the riffs are so fierce and the choruses so memorable that it doesn't matter what flavor of metal it is. It's just metal.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
06-26-2008 |
Reviews
Times New Viking Rejects the Indie Rock Crownnew
One part pop-music classicism and one equal part DIY static, Times New Viking has been credited with reorienting underground rock away from the dance punk and self-indulgent freak folk that has dominated to a rawer, more immediate sound.
Dig Boston |
Nick Feeley |
06-26-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Modey Lemon Drops 'Season of Sweets' After an Extended Breaknew
Three years have passed since Pittsburgh's spaced-out, punk-blues trio last released a proper studio album. It's a startling drought for a band that released its first three albums in a span of four years. But singer/guitarist Phil Boyd says the sabbatical was exactly what Modey Lemon needed.
San Diego CityBeat |
Scott McDonald |
06-25-2008 |
Reviews
Ramon Hernandez Squeezes a History of Latino Music into His Apartmentnew
In the early 1960s, he began collecting literature, periodicals, recordings, photographs, and other memorabilia on Latinos in the music industry, from the crooners of the '40s to the rock 'n' rollers of the '50s to anyone who has ever been associated with Tejano, conjunto, and musica ranchera.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
06-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rollerball: Portland's Best-kept Secret for Far Too Longnew
These people are so humble, it doesn't occur to them that they ought to be lauded alongside local legends like Smegma, the Wipers and Yellow Swans. Musicians revere them.
Willamette Week |
Nathan Carson |
06-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rebirth Brass Band's Drummer Hopes to Train Another Generation of Local Musiciansnew
Derrick Tabb's Roots of Music is an independent year-round music program for New Orleans children.
