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2008 Stories by Michael Gallucci

• Kate Voegele

  published September 4, 2008

  Everywhere we look — USA Today, iTunes, the CW — we see 21-year-old Cleveland singer-songwriter Kate Voegele's face. There... More >>

• Kate Voegele

  published September 4, 2008

  Everywhere we look - USA Today, iTunes, the CW - we see 21-year-old Cleveland singer-songwriter Kate Voegele’s face. There she is - singing... More >>

• Stone Temple Pilots, with Black Francis

  published June 26, 2008

  Scott Weiland had barely wiped Slash's bootprint from his ass when he and his Stone Temple Pilots bandmates announced their own reunion tour.... More >>

• Local H: Twelve Angry Months

  published June 26, 2008

  Think you've had a bad year? Get a load of Local H's. On Twelve Angry Months, the Chicago alt-rock duo flips through its calendar and... More >>

• Emery, with Army of Me, Envy on the Coast, and the Almost

  published June 19, 2008

  Emery's big move turned out to be a major downer. Formed in South Carolina at the top of the decade, the screamo group packed its bags for... More >>

• The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age of the Understatement

  published June 12, 2008

  With their full-time bands, the Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and the Rascals' Miles Kane make loud, blurry Britrock that celebrates... More >>

• Natasha Bedingfield, with Kate Voegele and the Veronicas

  published June 5, 2008

  It doesn't get poppier, perkier or cuter than this triple-header featuring Brit Bedingfield, Australian twins the Veronicas and Cleveland... More >>

• The BellRays and Architects, with Vice and Deadbird

  published May 29, 2008

  California soul-rockers the BellRays have a lot of things going for them: hard riffs, solid records, a wild live show. But nothing tops... More >>

• Robyn: Robyn

  published May 29, 2008

  Way back in 1996, Robyn reached the Top 10 with "Do You Know (What It Takes)." She followed it up a year later with another big hit, "Show Me... More >>

• The Whigs: Mission Control|What Made Milwaukee Famous: What Doesn't Kill Us

  published May 1, 2008

  Like R.E.M., the Whigs call Athens, Georgia, home. And like R.E.M., they're Southerners who really don't make much of their Southernism. Sure,... More >>

• Shelby Lynne: Just a Little Lovin'

  published April 17, 2008

  It was only a matter of time before Shelby Lynne got around to recording Just a Little Lovin'. Her 2000 tour de force, I Am Shelby... More >>

• British Sea Power, with Film School, Colour Music and the Watermarks

  published April 10, 2008

  UK indie-rockers British Sea Power were Ivy League smarty-pants way before Vampire Weekend came on the scene. On their 2003 debut, The... More >>

• Black Mountain

  published March 13, 2008

  Black Mountain is an anomaly among Canadian bands. For one thing, it has only five members, and they don't play highfalutin chamber-pop that... More >>

• The Cribs: Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever

  published March 6, 2008

  The Cribs are three British brothers whose first two albums didn't make much of an impression in the States — mainly because they weren't... More >>

• White Williams is No Average Joe

  published January 31, 2008

  Growing up in the Cleveland area, Joe Williams had the usual complaints about the city's music scene: There's no place for electro-pop fans to... More >>

• Daft Punk: Alive 2007

  published January 3, 2008

  Theoretically, a live album by Daft Punk shouldn't work. After all, the French electronic duo's live performances — which include a... More >>

• The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists

  published January 3, 2008

  Admit it: Sometimes you're sitting around listening to your old Sex Pistols records and thinking, "I wonder which punk-rock icon has the... More >>