AltWeeklies Wire
Absolutely No Ideanew
The avant-garde No Idea Festival's early editions focused primarily on Texas artists, but founder Chris Cogburn has broadened the geographic and cultural range of the festival considerably this year.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-13-2008 |
Concerts
Tags: No Idea Festival, concerts
Neptune Goes Extra Big in '08new
Neptune is a three-man sculpture/electrical engineering/performance team who build their gear by hand; a mess of barrels, blades, auto scrap and other miscellany both domestic and industrial, all modded with electronics.
Dig Boston |
Daniel Lopatin |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Neptune
The Backstage Passes and Musings of Dean & Brittanew
Indie-rock gossip hounds might be interested to know that Wareham and Phillips didn't become a couple immediately after they met -- and they kept it on the down low even after they hooked up. Wareham promises to tell all in his new memoir, Black Postcards, which will be published by Penguin in March.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Marcus Crowder |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dean & Britta
Chapped Lipsnew
Nudity, corrupt cops and 12 shows in three days is par for The Black Lips' course.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dryw Keltz |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Black Lips, Good Bad Not Evil
Dub Traffik Control, Declassifiednew
The following is a dossier on the genesis and evolution of, and activities undertaken by, Dub Traffik Control, a notorious underground live dub project based in San Diego but with known desires to take over the world.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kinsee Morlan |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dub Traffik Control
The Return of the Return of the DJnew
Ex-X-ecutioners form Ill Insanity and begin their crusade for the next DJ renaissance.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Billy Jam |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ill Insanity
A VAST Improvementnew
Electro-rockers power down for mellow affair.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: VAST
Bach Setnew
It is not an exaggeration to call the Bach Cantata project of Nicholas Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt a landmark in the history of recorded music.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Peter Burwasser |
02-12-2008 |
Reviews
Gregg Foreman Hangs Tough (and Tender) with Cat Powernew
These days Foreman provides Cat Power with the keyboard kink and dirtball heft her music's always begged for with Jukebox. But the Philly vet's done more than that.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
02-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cinder Road Rehashes the '80snew
No big hair though.
Colorado Springs Independent |
John Benson |
02-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cinder Road, Superhuman
Riding the Wavesnew
Bayside's got plenty of reasons to be emo.
Colorado Springs Independent |
John Benson |
02-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bayside, The Walking Wounded
Anyone Can Write the Grammys!new
Yes, Virginia, writers make the Grammys "long" and "boring" and sometimes "wildly unpredictable."
Metro Times |
Serene Dominic |
02-12-2008 |
Music
Dojo's Shared Visionnew
Analog Suspect fills the sensei role on Duality, with Selecta Roswell holding the spotlight on the strength of her sharp wordplay and a verbal style that encompasses rapid-paced syllable twisting and impassioned spitting.
Jack Johnson Sure Seems Nicenew
But niceness doesn't translate to interesting music on Sleep Through the Static, an album snoozy enough to put Ambien out of business.
The Sugar Pop of the Jonas Brothersnew
If you're a (really) nice girl between the ages of six and sixteen, you probably get twitterpated at the very thought of the Jonas Brothers, the latest commercial triumph from the marketing geniuses at the Walt Disney Company.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
02-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Jonas Brothers
