AltWeeklies Wire
Keep It Like A Secretnew
New Bloods unearth roots, but hold the marrow sacred.
Willamette Week |
Anika Sabin |
04-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: News Bloods, The Secret Life
A Guidance Counselor Like No Othernew
Ian Anderson catches dreams and makes 'em danceworthy.
Willamette Week |
Nilina Mason-Campbel |
04-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Guidance Counselor
Autechre: Listening Deeply to Future's Pastnew
With this month's release of Quaristice, the Manchester electro pioneers have proven once again why they remain the most vital experimental force of the Warp generation.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Erik Morse |
04-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Autechre, Quaristice
Just Keep Walkennew
Multiple maniacs won't deter these metal vets.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Duncan Scott Davidson |
04-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Walken
Metal Mania: The Return of the Kingsnew
Bay Area thrash is on the comeback as Exodus and Testament rouse new fans with new recordings.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Ben Richardson |
04-02-2008 |
Music
Nada Surf Reminds Itself to be Happynew
Matthew Caws speaks quietly at a measured pace, not unlike how he sings one of his ballads. A tender tone persists just this side of protected laziness -- he puts you at ease, even if he isn't.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
04-02-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
No Country for the Old Men of Bon Jovinew
After Lost Highway came out, many fans began referring to it as the group's country record. Guitarist Richie Sambora maintains that's a misnomer.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
04-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lost Highway, bon jovi
When I Turn 21new
Even Jagermeister reps give Black Tide hassle for being young.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Scott Lieber |
04-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Tide, Light from Above
No Betta Ettanew
Beyonce sang "Survivor," but she'd have a tough time personifying Ms. James.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Terry Terrones |
04-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Etta James
David Brewis Goes for Baroque with School of Languagenew
More raw and rocky than Field Music, School of Language's melodies are sweet, but more distorted, with jagged guitar riffs dashing across blatty bass and crashing, compressed-sounding drums.
The Pitch |
Jason Harper |
04-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: School of Language, Sea From Shore
Roky Erickson Howls Onnew
Erickson's recent rising to the occasion of Austin City Limits -- first festival, then TV show -- and this month's Austin Music Awards isn't the Texas psych icon's first comeback.
Houston Press |
Chris Gray |
04-01-2008 |
Reviews
763 MP3s and Nothing Onnew
Paul Ford heard more SXSW acts than anyone else, without leaving New York.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
04-01-2008 |
Music
Houston's Matt Clark Strums for New Orleans' Glen David Andrewsnew
How a white kid from upper-crust Houston found his calling in New Orleans in funky joints like the Candlelight Lounge, a landmark bar in New Orleans's fabled jazz nexus, the Tremé neighborhood.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
04-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Matt Clark
Dru Hill Announces New Membernew
A few weeks after the we-re-back-now-we're-not radio debacle, the group held a live audition at local nightclub Suite to pick a fourth member to fill Woody's spot and move on with the comeback as planned.
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
04-01-2008 |
Music
Tags: Dru Hill
Dusting off Dusty Springfieldnew
From Lesley Gore to Amy Winehouse, female singers wanting to open the throttle on romantic need and desire have inevitably borrowed more than a little from Springfield -- especially if they were white women who loved black R&B.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
04-01-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dusty Springfield
