AltWeeklies Wire
Lead Charmparticle on Growing Up and Career-appropriate Eyewearnew
Learning to play without longtime collaborator Adam Wayne has taught Pamela Rooney to be a true songwriter and confident full-time frontwoman.
Willamette Week |
Casey Jarman |
06-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Charmparticles
Joan Armatrading: Blues Mamanew
With her hot new album, the Brit singer-songwriter puts a fresh stamp on a classic American genre.
East Bay Express |
Dave Gil de Rubio |
06-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joan Armatrading
Battles Brings the Hot Rocknew
The quartet blasts off with Mirrored.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
06-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: battles
The Fundamentals of Fucked Upnew
This pseudonym-only hardcore band subverts punk conventions.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Michael Harkin |
06-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fucked Up
Fred Mangan's Eccentric Guitarsnew
For the past few decades, Mangan has been converting found, esoteric objects into functioning works of art.
Chicago Newcity |
Libby Ramer |
06-27-2007 |
Music
Les is Morenew
Les Claypool doesn't need anyone to show him the money -- when it comes to his career, he already knows where it's at.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Alan Sculley |
06-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Les Claypool
Magic Wolf Updates Cock Rock for New Generationnew
While the trio isn't trying to intellectualize rock 'n' roll by any means, the band's not as mindless as it may pretend to be.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Andy Mulkerin |
06-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Magic Wolf
Ben + Vesper Grows on You As They Grow With Each Othernew
The two band members are a married couple, but on their first full-length they don't sound all that thrilled about it.
New Haven Advocate |
Brian LaRue |
06-26-2007 |
Reviews
LOS Rejected the Reality Show Lifenew
The rhyme spitter walked off Diddy's reality TV show Making the Band, only to later find himself signed to Bad Boy Records.
Baltimore City Paper |
Al Shipley |
06-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Los
Peacekeeping Armynew
Polyphonic Spree's up to 28 members have shed their cultlike robes for a unifying military look, and its latest record, The Fragile Army, still has the sunny sound the group is known for but takes on more serious subject matter lyrically and sartorically.
Gambit |
Alison Fensterstock |
06-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Polyphonic Spree, The Fragile Army
For Metal Maniacsnew
Although 3 Inches of Blood harks back to some of metal's cheesier moments, the Vancouver-based band resents being called a "spoof" group -- they're serious about what they do.
Phoenix New Times |
Niki D'Andrea |
06-26-2007 |
Reviews
The Smob: Hip-hop With a Twistnew
"What hip-hop do you know that has a Kansas country girl singing?"
Phoenix New Times |
Brendan Joel Kelley |
06-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Smob
Bumps Gives a 23-track Seminar on the Manifold Pleasures of Rhythmnew
Besides being a musical feast in its own right, Bumps also serves as a beggar's banquet for sample hounds looking to bolster their rhymes with killer blaps.
Tags: Bumps
Cole's Notesnew
Nat's bro Freddy's got hot vocals of his own.
NOW Magazine |
Tim Perlich |
06-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Freddy Cole
Amy Ray Talks Nature, Cyndi, HRC & Morenew
The group's new album Despite Our Differences focuses on urban-rural spaces and some pretty heavy class analysis.
NOW Magazine |
Sarah Liss |
06-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Indigo Girls
