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Easy Livingnew
Released on a Kansas City label, Answers proves that: (A) Ghosty is grown up, and (B) Ghosty does not sleep in — or, for that matter, sleep much at all.
The Pitch |
Jason Harper |
01-15-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Surf-and-Turf Rocknew
Perpetual Groove takes its jams aboard the high seas, then returns for the landlubbers.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
01-15-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Perpetual Groove
Remember Motley Crue? Poison? Ratt?new
The members of EndeverafteR purposefully hope to ring in a "new" era for music -- by offering up some that's actually quite familiar.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pete Freedman |
01-15-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: EndeverafteR, Kiss or Kill
Shake and Bakenew
Rude but sincere, heartfelt but absurd, these Nashville rockers have been crisscrossing the country for almost a decade playing their own sweaty brand of hillbilly punk meets sneering country music to the masses.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jason Bugg |
01-15-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The New Model Is an Old Modelnew
Jam bands like Umphrey's McGee are a step ahead of the music business.
Chicago Reader |
Miles Raymer |
01-15-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Umphrey's McGee
The Guitar Heroics of Screaming Femalesnew
Only one of the Screaming Females is female, and she generally sings as much as she screams.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Andy Mulkerin |
01-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Screaming Females
Don't Call the Von Bondies Bluesynew
They're back with two new EPs, a third full-length, called Love, Hate and Then There's You, slated for a 2008 release ... and a plan to reintroduce themselves to their audience on the road.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Aaron Jentzen |
01-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Von Bondies, Love, Hate
Fred is Deadnew
It's officially a new year, and it's usually at this time that I comb through the tribute and farewell sections of magazines' year-end issues to see which greats left us and exclaim, "Oh shit, he’s dead!"
Philadelphia Weekly |
Craig D. Lindsey |
01-14-2008 |
Music
More Than a Product Tie-Innew
The best soundtracks enhance the flicks from which they sprang even as they make a statement of their own. And Juno's CD companion more than accomplishes this goal.
Sea Wolf Treads Waternew
Alex Church prefers staying afloat to howling success.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
01-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sea Wolf
ASCAP Can Cripple Small Venuesnew
Denton's Rubber Gloves was told to pay up more than $8,000 to the industry giant.
Dallas Observer |
Noah W. Bailey |
01-14-2008 |
Music
Matt Costa Looks at 'Unfamiliar Faces'new
The 25-year-old skateboarder-turned-songwriter's 2005 debut featured a lovable brand of folk-pop and landed him an opening slot on Jack Johnson's globe-trotting tours.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Matt Kettmann |
01-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Matt Costa, Unfamiliar Faces
Willie Nelson: Alive and Singing the Truthnew
Willie's daughter Amy co-wrote "A Peaceful Solution" with him last year -- the song declares that the real war we all need to be fighting is the war to reclaim our own country.
The Texas Observer |
Thomas Palaima |
01-14-2008 |
Music
Tags: Willie Nelson
The Deadstring Brothers are Looking Upnew
One of Detroit's most unheralded bands begins, slowly, to win over America.
Metro Times |
Chris Parker |
01-14-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Deadstring Brothers
The Whigs: A Throwback in a Good Waynew
Athens' Whigs perfect a brand of no-frills rock that never goes out of style.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
01-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mission Control, The Whigs
