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Point Juncture, WA Creates Weird Tapes Projectnew
Instead of releasing normal full-length records on cassette, what if they used tapes as a creative jump -- off for their friends' home experiments -- those that, otherwise, would never escape the bedroom?
Willamette Week |
Michael Mannheimer |
05-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
R.E.M. is Not Exactly Back, but Not Yet Out of Timenew
On Accelerate, the band sounds happy just being part of the landscape.
East Bay Express |
Nate Seltenrich |
05-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Accelerate, r.e.m.
The Biscuit Burners Tread New Ground, but Remain Rooted in Bluegrassnew
With angelic harmonies over fiddle and dobro, the Biscuit Burners cook up tasty eats for the ears.
Charleston City Paper |
Stratton Lawrence |
05-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Explorers Club Pulls from Early British Invasion and 60s California Popnew
Freedom Wind is a remarkably confident and original first-time effort, with great minor-key melodies, organ work, vocal harmonies, and urgent, almost neurotic lead vocals.
Charleston City Paper |
T. Ballard Lesemann |
05-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Freedom Wind, The Explorers Club
Michael White Proves that Traditional Jazz Livesnew
His new CD, Blue Crescent, soars with original compositions that recapture the dawn of jazz.
Gambit |
Jason Berry |
05-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
M83 Looks to the 1980s for Inspirationnew
Saturdays=Youth finds Anthony Gonzalez venturing deeper into the pop realm, even stating openly that this collection of songs are a celebration of his teenage years.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
05-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: M83, Saturdays=Youth
M83 Gets All Misty-eyed About Teen Sex and Drugsnew
For someone involved in what is officially a solo project, M83's Anthony Gonzalez is remarkably generous when it comes to sharing the spotlight.
The Georgia Straight |
John Lucas |
05-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Bedlam' Took Its Toll on Mars Voltanew
Rather than a band bio, the group's website (www.thebedlam.net) offers a six-page chronicle of what transpired during the making of its fourth CD, The Bedlam in Goliath. It involves a creepy antique Ouija board and a string of catastrophes weird enough to fry at least one sound engineer’s brain.
The Georgia Straight |
Alexander Varty |
05-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sure, Mocking ScarJo is Trendy Right Nownew
By now we all know Maxim hottie Scarlett Johansson has released an album of Tom Waits covers. But, y'know, Anywhere I Lay My Head is actually not so bad.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
05-27-2008 |
Reviews
Dark Meat Massive Lets it All Hang Outnew
The Athens-based 17-piece band insists that it's members are not really communal-living hippie dope fiends, although they do enjoy fucking shit up.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
05-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dark Meat, Universal Indians
Five Bands That Could Pass as Creepy Cultsnew
Dark Meat isn't the first hairy-scary music ensemble to be mistaken for some bizarre quasi-religious cult. Here are a few more that could qualify for a tax exemption.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
05-27-2008 |
Music
Van Morrison Once Again Ventures Into the Slipstreamnew
What has eluded Morrison in recent years -- and what the famously press-skeptical artist has certainly done nothing to court -- is a galvanizing, buzz-worthy, late-career "comeback" on the order of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan or Neil Diamond.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-27-2008 |
Reviews
Shooter Jennings: Hungry Like the Wolfnew
The outlaw country spawn wants to be more Jack White than Clint Black.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jason Notte |
05-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Breeders Return to Basics with 'Mountain Battles'new
"When you're on a major label, you have a responsibility to appeal to everybody. Sex sells, so get ready to pose; get ready to smile; get ready to show some skin," Kelley Deal says. "What I think is weird is if you’re on a major and you complain about that [responsibility], then you're full of shit because you know what that means."
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Jamie Gadette |
05-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Atmosphere Explores Other Folks' Lives in First Personnew
When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold is "dedicated to all dads," bracketed by the sounds from a child's music box, and focused on the lives of girls and women.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
05-23-2008 |
Reviews
