Marissa Paternoster’s Bold Awakening
The Screaming Females screamer cryptically emotes on Holy Hell
July 13, 2010
All Roky Erickson Needs Is Love
And a little help from Austin cohorts Okkervil River
April 27, 2010
INTERVIEW: Crazy Heart Author Thomas Cobb on His Character Bad Blake, Deer Tick, and Why Chet Atkins Killed Country
March 4, 2010
INTERVIEW: R&B Porn Godfather Andre Williams on Why Coke-Dealing Stories Are Better Than Alcoholic Tales, His New Book Sweets, and More
February 3, 2010
Dying in the U.S.A.
On the Haunting Songs of Chuck Prophet
November 10, 2009
In Defense of Pearl Jam’s Backspacer
Seattle’s second-favorite sons gamely redefine their Target audience
September 15, 2009
INTERVIEW: Nels Cline on Masturbation, Thurston Moore, and Wilco’s New Record
May 8, 2009
Back to School With the Butthole Surfers
They’re collaborating with teenagers now. Terrible idea. Wonderful idea.
July 23, 2008
Seun Kuti Carries the Afrobeat Torch
Fela’s youngest son picks up the rhythm and takes up the fight
June 24, 2008
Shearwater and My Brightest Diamond
Delicate indie offshoots deliver lovely, inconvenient truths
June 17, 2008
Willie Nelson’s Trigger Cuts
Shotgun Willie gets the respect he deserves
April 15, 2008
The Wrong Version of Nick Lowe’s Debut Album Is Being Reissued
But you’ll live
February 19, 2008
The Octopus Project’s Electro-Mini Symphonies
October 2, 2007
Lyle Lovett’s It’s Not Big It’s Large
Whatever this title is referencing, it’s not his recent discography
August 21, 2007
Kelly Willis’s Translated From Love
Verbose euphoria triumphs over beery, sad-sack country cliche
July 17, 2007
The Polyphonic Spree’s The Fragile Army
Militant bohemian rhapsodies
June 12, 2007
The Clutters’s Don’t Believe a Word
Boppy quartet constructs a man-made Rockaway Beach in Tennessee
May 22, 2007
Songs of Free Love and Hate
Glorious moping, whether over Altamont or poor album sales
April 24, 2007
Do the Collapse
More pompous but occasionally thrilling annihilation from the TOD boys
October 31, 2006
Belles on Wheels
The Ditty Bops bike tour finally ends, 4,500 jittery and often moonlit miles later
August 22, 2006
Texan Troubadour Turns Near-Death Into New Life
June 20, 2006
Amateur Proselytizing
Crooner searches for God, though a bit repetitively
May 30, 2006
No Continuity
Slowcore pioneer Jeff Martin goes it alone with a pile of scraps
Febuary 7, 2006
Three Times a Crybaby
Here’s more non-bad publicity for a guy who never sees it that way
January 10, 2006
A Soundtrack for Cindy
Monotoning Austin poet sees the elephant, pounds the guy on top
October 11, 2005
