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Music | Wednesday, September 27,2006
Riddle me this
It’s No. 8 for Richard Buckner, and he sounds like, um, himself
One part George Jones, one part John Ashbery, Richard Buckner brings the MFA poetry workshop to the honky-tonk, or vice versa. He’s the kind of lyricist who is typically described as “elli
Music | Wednesday, September 20,2006
Make way for the M word
Longtime St. Louis fixture Joe Thebeau scores first national release
Joe Thebeau, the mastermind of Finn’s Motel, describes himself as a “40-year-old married-with-children rock guy” — an unglamorous profile for an indie-rock aspirant, maybe, but
Music | Wednesday, September 20,2006
Vinyl Static
Scissor Sister’s Ta-Dah; Lupe’s Food & Liquor
SINGLES ONLY
The flashy Scissor Sisters released their debut in a blaze of glitter and poppy piano parts, but who knew the fabulously retro New York quintet could strike gold twice? The first single,
Music | Wednesday, September 13,2006
Vinyl Static
Shows-a-go-go and CD exchange
SHOWS-A-GO-GO!
There are rock shows aplenty this week, but fans will have to rack up some mileage to attend them all. Devotees of Built to Spill will undoubtedly release a huge sigh this weekend when
Music | Wednesday, September 13,2006
She's special, not 'cause she's a she
Guitarist Kaki King goes for the full-band sound
Guitar dorks are guys mostly, weird guys with ickily long fingernails who stink of cannabis and complicated tablatures. If they’re not droning on about the awesome tuning that they just discover
Music | Thursday, September 7,2006
Depth charge
Cashing in on the current craze for all things piratical
People love pirates. They prove it by stampeding to see the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, by chomping down on their R’s (arrrrrghs!) on Talk Like a Pirate Day. Piratemania is so widespread, i
Music | Wednesday, August 30,2006
When kiwis take flight
Phoenix Foundation’s latest definitely worth the wait
New Zealand, a country that’s delivered more than its share of great guitar pop in the last 20-odd years — the Chills, the Clean, the Verlaines, the Bats, Split Enz, and Crowded House, to
Music | Wednesday, August 30,2006
Vinyl Static
Roots’ Game Theory heads a list a much-anticipated fall releases
CD EXCHANGE: This fall you’ll find Vinyl Static holed up in a closet somewhere with headphones and a compact-disc player — is Vinyl Static the only one still using a CD player? — ind
Music | Wednesday, August 23,2006
Get your Goat
What Get Lonely lacks in drama, it makes up for in quiet artistry
Last year the Mountain Goats released The Sunset Tree, an aural exorcism inspired by the abusive childhood of the band’s frontman and only permanent member, John Darnielle. Like its predecessor,
Music | Wednesday, August 23,2006
Vinyl Static
OutKast is back, and Beyoncé’s fighting mad
CD EXCHANGE
OutKast is back, finally. Last Tuesday the Dirty South duo unleashed Idlewild, an album to accompany the new film, set in the Prohibition era, that’s coming out Aug. 25. The release
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