AltWeeklies Wire
Life Musicnew
Charlotte's Soulganic harnesses its passion onto debut CD.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Jeff Hahne |
04-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Soulganic
Soft Machinesnew
With amplified thumb piano and pots and pans in hand, Konono No. 1 prove that good things can happen in Kinshasa.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kate Izquierdo |
04-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Konono No. 1
Another Close Onenew
To Live and Shave in L.A. carve a sonic palette void of any real structure but fraught with their influences.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Chris Sabbath |
04-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Portland's Best New Band Pollnew
The Shaky Hands come out on top of this year's Top 10.
Willamette Week |
Michael Byrne, Casey Jarman, Amy McCullough, Anika Sabin and Jason Simms |
04-25-2007 |
Music
Another Trans-formationnew
Trans Am gets a Sex Change.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
04-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Trans Am
Return of the 50 Foot Womannew
Kristin Hersh on stardom, skin and her new muses.
Philadelphia City Paper |
M.J. Fine |
04-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kristin Hersh
Foreign Filmsnew
After earning fans in Europe, The Films look to win over their own countrymen.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pete Freedman |
04-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Films
What to Do When You're Stranded in Chicago for a Week with Man Mannew
Judging by the genre-defying, increasingly manic music that has materialized before me during one sleepless week in the Windy City, Man Man won't be disbanding anytime soon.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Andrew Parks |
04-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Man Man
A Faded Kodak Fantasy of 1960s Popnew
Animal Collective member Noah Lennox has made a record best listened to while falling asleep, just waking up, or any other time you're groggy enough to mistake a passing garbage truck for a Bach cantata.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jess Harvell |
04-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Panda Bear, Person Pitch
She's All Thatnew
Or, how I learned to stop worrying about liking young R&B strumpets and love my passive sexism and racism.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-24-2007 |
Music
Are You Alrightnew
Lucinda Williams' new album West captures her life and songwriting at their high and low points.
Gambit |
Alison Fensterstock |
04-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lucinda Williams, West
Looking for the Resurrectionnew
Trumpeter and New Orleans Jazz Orchestra founder Irvin Mayfield lost his father -- but found a new purpose -- in Katrina's floodwaters.
Gambit |
Jason Berry |
04-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Hippest Hard Metal Band to Hit Western World in a Long Timenew
This Japanese rock band is huge in its home country, and it's starting to make waves here in the States, despite being way too cool for us.
Phoenix New Times |
Niki D'Andrea |
04-24-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Dir En Grey, The Marrow of a Bone
West By Southwestnew
The eclectic desert collective Calexico draws from indie-rock and the barren Southwest landscapes to produce music that has made it into sound tracks to films like Committed and Bob Dylan's biopic I'm Not There.
Gambit |
Noah Bonaparte Pais |
04-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Calexico
Green Partynew
Sax player Tim Green will pop up on many New Orleans Jazz Fest stages, although his name never appears on any of the billings.
Gambit |
Sam Winston |
04-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
