Grandaddy: Digital Nature (Interview with Jim Fairchild)
E Ward
February 15, 2004
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Recent advances in technology have certainly made life a bit more comfortable, but California
2004
Earl Slick: Bowie’s Axeman Chops Solo (INTERVIEW)
Shane Handler
February 15, 2004
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By the standards of anyone, guitarist Earl Slick has lived a rock and roll fantasy camp over his 30+ year musical career. While his name doesn
RAQ: In The Mouth Of The Lion (Interview With Chris Michetti)
E Ward
February 15, 2004
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At a time when the greater rock world has become inundated with throwback sounds, quickly subtitling everything retro-this and post-that, an improvisational four-piece from Vermont is stepping out from an ominous shadow by reinventing a sound it would have otherwise never outlived.
Teitur: Self Professed Troubadour (INTERVIEW)
Shane Handler
February 15, 2004
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Singer-songwriter Teitur’s Universal Records debut, Poetry & Aeroplanes, is an eleven-song collection of delicate tunes that reveal the inner troubadour in all of us. Songs about travelling, waiting, post cards, and telephone conversations, dwell up cinemagraphic feelings of longing, regret and adventure.
Ryan Cavanaugh Trio: Live from Nowhere
Dan Bliss
February 11, 2004
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Before changing their name to the Ryan Cavanaugh Trio earlier this year – due to the departure of percussionist Chris Dougherty – Space Station Integration released Live from Nowhere. Fusing the traditional banjo with high-energy, jazz-fusion, Cavanaugh and company heighten the bluegrass bar by further adding elements of rock, bluegrass, funk, Celtic and Indian to the mix. All done of course with a definitive focus on improvisation.
Transit 0/31/2004: Monkey House – Winooski, VT
Shane Handler
February 10, 2004
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Transit’s sound is a crunchy testament to a time of simplicity, attaining the essence of improvisational originality, while capturing the moment’s true conscience – both the sunny and dark. It is this electric telepathy between the trio on stage that enables Transit to deliver this gritty passage of raw emotion that reflects in their cozy, coffeehouse stage settings.
Mindy Smith: One Moment More
Dean Barnett
February 9, 2004
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Backed by remarkably accomplished musicians, including acoustic guitar role model Bryan Sutton and steel guitar master Dan Dugmore, Ms. Smith seems satisfied with pretty acoustic arrangements that only rarely give way to more aggressive expressions. It’s not a bad formula, as shown in “Angel Doves,” but it dominates the disc until the listener’s stupor is interrupted by the processed vocals of “Hard to Know,” a near-rocker that would be far more convincing if Ms. Smith’s tenuous voice could carry the voltage she wrote into the tune.
moe. : Norva, Norfolk, VA 1.29.04
Brian Gearing
February 9, 2004
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While moe. have retained their ability to spaz-out over reggae-tinged rock and roll riffs, they have also finally learned to chill out. Their live show used to drive steadily over a long, flat highway of Ritalin-child guitar solos and bland exploration over unchanging bass lines, but the boys from Buffalo seem to have finally learned the subtle distinction between jamming and improvising.
Dr Nigel: Seeing In Squares EP
Shane Handler
February 5, 2004
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Working on solo projects outside a touring band has become commonplace, but recording and touring with two bands above and beyond a solo career is a rarity. The unassuming focal point of a small, simmering music scene in Boston, keyboardist/composer Neil Larson is usually found bringing the synth-madness to Amun Ra and moonlighting with Nikulydin, but has somehow managed to keep his day job as solo artist, Dr Nigel.
Phantom Planet: Phantom Planet
Aaron Mendelsohn
February 2, 2004
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Phantom Planet is still trying to find their identity. After two moderately successful albums of melancholy, California pop rock, Phantom Planet has taken a cue from some of their East Coast counterparts and released a self-titled LP of straightforward, guitar driven rock. Offering their best Strokes imitation, Phantom Planet has concocted a solid post-punk/post-grunge album that becomes more engaging upon each listen.
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