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GuacaMusic: Pureza Natural

posted: September 17, 2011

What better way to enjoy the end of summer than by listening to an awesome band that gets its inspiration from the great outdoors? Pureza Natural (which means something like natural purity) is the name…
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Statue of Liberty Vs. Bon Iver

posted: September 17, 2011

Bon Iver seems to be everywhere these days. Whether he’s singing on a Kanye West album or debuting at Number 2 on the Billboard Charts, Justin Vernon’s folk project that started in a cabin in…
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88 MPH: I Fight Dragons Dust Off The Old NES

posted: September 16, 2011

For I Fight Dragons, all those years smashing buttons in mom’s basement may have finally paid off. Faced with the task of standing out in an increasingly crowded sea of pop rock acts, these Chicagoans channeled their childhood love…
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Sound And Vision: It's the Same Old Song for Thespians Who Sing — and Chances Are It's Not a Hit!

posted: September 16, 2011

Though Susan Boyle helped make music’s mainstream safer for the mature crowd, her chart-life-begins-at-nearly fifty success story remains a rarity. But perhaps in the case of Jeff Bridges, who won an Oscar for playing an…
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The EditoriaList: Eight Great EPs

posted: September 15, 2011

EP stands for Extended Play. The word left off at the end is Single, as these were originally all about singles with some bonus material. This list, however, is about the EP as an artistic…
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Your Country's Right Here: John Hiatt Gives Voice to the Everyman

posted: September 15, 2011

John Hiatt believes in miracles. And why not? It doesn’t seem that long ago that he was just coming off weeks on the road and found that he and his wife were each at the…
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