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Music | Thursday, June 15,2006
VINYL STATIC
If you’re surprised to hear Nelly Furtado rapping, well, you’re not alone.
SINGLES ONLY: A chat is
long overdue concerning Nelly Furtado’s feverish new single “Promiscuous.”
Remember Nelly? She unleashed the ballad “I’m Like a
Bir
Music | Thursday, June 8,2006
No freaks – just folk
If Vetiver were a drug, it’d be hash, not acid
There’s a reason Vetiver gets lumped in with
the freak-folk crowd, but it doesn’t have much to do with its music.
Andy Cabic, the San Francisco-based collective’s only perm
Music | Thursday, June 8,2006
Vinyl Static
Jurassic 5, Sonic Youth, Abstract Giants, Chief Xcel, and Gift of Gab
HIGH FIVES: Desk Vinyl
Static is what the Dubya’s dad might call a “kinder, gentler
music critic.” When the message floated in that Jurassic 5 was finally dropping the
Music | Thursday, June 1,2006
All in the family
Feathers can crash at my pad whenever they like
What if the Manson Family had been less of a
patriarchal death cult and more of a freeform collective? What if
they’d shacked up in cool, reasonable Vermont instead of hotheaded
C
Music | Thursday, June 1,2006
Vinyl Static
Mr. Lif declared war on the government long ago — before it became fashionable
JUNEBUG: Rip the month
of May off your calendar quick — the painfully slow month for shows
and new releases has finally been put to rest, and not fast enough. Can you
say, “
Music | Wednesday, May 24,2006
On our side again
Neil Young’s ideological vicissitudes defy all reason
Now that President George W. Bush’s approval
ratings are stagnating around 30 percent, protest songs are fashionable
again, with everyone from Pink to Pearl Jam clamoring to kick ol
Music | Wednesday, May 24,2006
Vinyl Static
Celebrating those experimental Canadians, plus Basic Vocab
O CANADA! Let me
reintroduce you to a little country I like to call Canada, the place where
draft dodgers used to go and where everybody gets to see a doctor. But
there’s so
Music | Thursday, May 18,2006
A big, big world
Susana Baca is fluent in the only speech that matters
Susana Baca
Traves'as
(Luaka Bop)
Travesías means “passages” in Spanish, and it’s an
especially appropriate title for Susana Baca’s latest album, her
Music | Thursday, May 18,2006
Vinyl Static
Shipwreck hits town; Roots’ new release; shades of the Fugees
SHOWS A-GO-GO!
Champaign-Urbana band Shipwreck ventures our way for a show at the Underground City Tavern
on Saturday, May 20. If anyone can bring the rock, it’s Shipwreck.
This y
Music | Thursday, May 11,2006
The stuff that dreams are made of
Jolie Holland’s out with her third and best album
When I was 5 or 6 years old, I believed that musicals
were real. When the time was right, the people around me would burst into
song, and we could finally stop worrying about what to say nex
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