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Black Moth Super Rainbow Doesn't Write Songs, It Doodlesnew
Dandelion Gum can sound like the lo-fi bedroom work of one or two people.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
The Black Lips Grows Up By Staying Youngnew
With Good Bad Not Evil, the band's Vice Records studio full-length debut and fifth album overall, the Georgia quartet is building more buzz than fuzz with the group's least rust-bucket, adolescence-addled collection of blues-rawk.
Baltimore City Paper |
Tony Ware |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Black Lips, Good Bad Not Evil
Black Moth Super Rainbow Only Sounds Like Drug Musicnew
It's easy to see how that mistake could be made. It's all heady fuzz and spiraling surrealism, at once terrifying and giddy. Dandelion Gum's either a fairy tale with fangs or a nightmare drenched in syrup.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kiernan Maletsky |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
Monolith Festival Plans For Morenew
The inaugural Monolith might not have a brand name like its rival fests ... but look at the lineup.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pete Freedman |
09-18-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: Monolith Festival, concerts
Against Me! Discusses New Album, Butch Vignew
Touring for their fourth full-length album, New Wave, these guys are rocking the boat with punk that's rich, raw and honest.
Weekly Alibi |
Justin Alan Hood |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Against Me!, New Wave
Spectrum's Drone State of Mindnew
To tell the story of Spectrum, you first have to tell the short, furious story of Spacemen 3, the British band that reworked and re-presented psychedelic rock as a tranced-out mix tape of fuzz guitars and dreamy melodies.
Weekly Alibi |
Kyle Silfer |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Spectrum
Remembering Willie Teenew
New Orleans keyboardist Wilson "Willie Tee" Turbinton dies.
Don Brownrigg Releases Debutnew
Newfoundland's Brownrigg creates Wander Songs, a prolific musical anthology of thought and needs time to steep, like any good cup of tea.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Shannon Webb-Campbell |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Don Brownrigg, Wander Songs
Great Lake Swimmers Shrug Off Neo-Folk Labelnew
Call it the Garden State effect: Bands got lumped into the "neo-folk" group, but the Swimmers don't feel like they're part of the movement.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Ian Gormely |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Great Lake Swimmers
Goodtimes Charlie's Got the Bluesnew
"In blues, the longer you hang in there, the better it gets. In rock -- after a certain age -- people are not interested in you anymore," blues legend Charles Musselwhite says.
Birmingham Weekly |
Brent Thompson |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Charlie Musselwhite
The Skivies Only Sound Like a Jokenew
The humor on Between Appliance and Apparel has a dark edge that matches the heavier-than-expected music.
The Flaming Lips on Furriesnew
A few years back, frontman Wayne Coyne asked fans to don animal costumes and cavort on stage, unaware that the invitation would appeal to self-proclaimed furries, many of whom enjoy having sex while clad as cartoonish mascots.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
09-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Scene of the Crime' is Like a Gritty Tableau of Lifenew
Sultry notes are delivered almost ethereally by LaVette, who seems to be channeling a long-gone New Orleans honky-tonk barfly.
Metro Spirit |
Erika Bolin |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
'Eardrum' is Another Well-written Album by the Cognizant MCnew
Talib Kweli has risen to the top as one of the most respected, erudite, and charismatic lyricists to ever emerge from the underground hip-hop scene into the mainstream.
Metro Spirit |
Frazia Lee |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Eardrum, Talib Kweli
Make Room on the Amy Winehouse Bandwagonnew
I've got a sinking feeling that without intervention, Ms. Thing might be well on her way to becoming another premature casualty, a tragic footnote in a long line of legendary flame-outs.
Tags: Amy Winehouse, Back to Black
