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Sound And Vision: Foster the People's Chart Challenge — Is There Life After "Pumped Up Kicks"?
posted: December 2, 2011
Foster the People just might be the pop anomaly of 2011. The trio of Los Angeles-based twentysomethings led by founder and namesake Mark Foster looks like a boy band (only cuter), plays instruments like rockers…
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Your Country's Right Here: Jason Boland & the Stragglers Band Relish Red Dirt
posted: December 1, 2011
Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Sugarland and other big-name country musicians makes it easy to overlook some of the considerably less flashy but incredibly substantive performers”and that’s really a shame. Consider Jason Boland & The Stragglers…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Can's Crowning Krautrock Moment
posted: November 30, 2011
Nothing is true, everything is permitted. So goes the famous maxim popularized by Vladimir Bartol‘s 1938 novel, Alamut, and attributed to eleventh century Persian revolutionary Hassan-i Sabbah. If there’s any album falling even nominally under…
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Live Wired: Why We Love Live Music So Much
posted: November 29, 2011
Every week at Live Wired, we talk about different live performances, from national acts to OurStage artists, and attempt to explore what made each show unique and memorable. Despite what changes in the world of…
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Bieber And The Musicians Singing The Paternity Blues
posted: November 28, 2011
Justin Bieber’s meteoric career has been characterized by many hallmarks of popularity and success: his rabid, cultish following and equally rabid legions of haters, his memeification by the Internet, his well documented young adulthood being…
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Vocal Points: Where Have All The Voices Gone?
posted: November 27, 2011
John Mayer isn’t known for his humility. In fact, quite the opposite”he’s been called showy, cocky and even called out for his womanizing ways. But he IS known for his voice. The way that he…
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