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Kristin Hersh Rides Into a Golden Oceannew
Kristin Hersh scratches her rock & roll itch with her new band 50 Foot Wave's new album, Golden Ocean.
Orlando Weekly |
Christopher John Treacy |
03-02-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: 50 Foot Wave, Golden Ocean
Great Rock Writ Welshnew
Every track on Songbook -- the Super Furries' singles compilation -- is rife with tiny surprises. The big surprise is that they're not the biggest rock band in the world. Also reviewed is Shivaree's Who's Got Trouble?
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
02-28-2005 |
Reviews
Buck 65 and His Dark, Lyrical Hip-Hopnew
Richard "Buck 65" Terfry's approach is indeed one best described as wide open, featuring characters edging on absurdly imaginative. With fuzz guitar and vibraphone, he strives to conjure the palpable longing of the outsider, like an aural companion to John Fante's Ask the Dust.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
02-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Fan Remembers R&B Queen Jill Scott Without Her Roarnew
The singer's approach to her music has changed, and her concert audience is missing out on the intelligent nuances evident in her albums.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Bill Addison |
02-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Le Tigre on the New Album, the New Label, and the 'L' Wordnew
While it may not inspire a sexual awakening in everyone, This Island captures Le Tigre at its most accessible and body movin' (to steal a term from Hanna's boyfriend Ad-Rock's group).
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
02-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Le Tigre
Pedal to the Metalnew
Jon Rauhouse dusts off those bizarre thrift-store scores.
Tucson Weekly |
Stephen Seigel |
02-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jon Rauhouse, Steel Guitar Rodeo
Son of Jazz: An Interview With Thelonious Monk IIInew
Thelonious Monk III, the son of the renowned jazz pianist, recently took part in the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz at Jim Hill High School. Moyo spoke with Monk in the Jim Hill auditorium about his father, jazz and why young people need to know more about both.
Jackson Free Press |
Thabi Moyo |
02-24-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Thelonius Monk, III
Turning the Tidesnew
Rock stalwarts Watershed have weathered rough seas since they decided to form a band on the playground 20 years ago.
Columbus Alive |
Stephen Slaybaugh |
02-24-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Five Ways the Music Industry Is Changingnew
Starbucks is selling nearly as many records as it is lattes, but not for long, because the CD is almost dead. And you can hear it all by tuning in to KEXP-FM—from anywhere on the planet. Here's a brief survey of where the music business is now and may be heading in 2005.
Seattle Weekly |
Andrew Bonazelli, Laura Cassidy, Philip Dawdy, and Michaelangelo Matos |
02-23-2005 |
Music
Brooding Euro-style Electropopnew
The Amsterdam-based group's Attagirl is more obviously experimental than its predecessor, Log 22, but it represents an evolution in the band’s sound rather than an entirely new direction.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
02-21-2005 |
Reviews
Gorillas on the Busnew
Sleeptyime Gorilla Museum travel to gigs on a retrofitted 1960s Greyhound-style bus while embracing rock and roll as an art and theater event.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
02-17-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Quiet Riotnew
Norway's Kings of Convenience keep turning the volume down.
Columbus Alive |
Stephen Slaybaugh |
02-17-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Collaboration Possesses Qualities of Deranged Filmnew
When former Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton teams up with Norwegian film score composer John Kaada, the two unleash a sonic panorama that brings to mind a twinkling and surreal snow-dusted landscape.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
02-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kaada/Patton, Romances
All 14 Tracks Demand the Extra Punctuationnew
With production help from kindred spirit Southern Culture on the Skids' frontman Rick Miller, Dexter Romweber finds cracked yet honest soul in his Elvis-on-amphetamines, Sun-styled rockabilly rumbles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
02-17-2005 |
Reviews
New Album Will Resonate With Fans of Mutable Downtemponew
With quivery dub as the hub, the duo of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton has crafted 15 billowing reams of hand-loomed textures on their fourth full-length, The Cosmic Game.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
02-17-2005 |
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