Archive Search Results
-
Night & Day
Kate Voegele
By Michael Gallucci
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 songs from, talking about, and...
-
Playbill
Kate Voegele
By Michael Gallucci
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 songs from,...
-
Rotation
Local H: Twelve Angry Months
By Michael Gallucci
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 recalls 365 days' worth of lousy dates,...
-
Playbill
Stone Temple Pilots, with Black Francis
By Michael Gallucci
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. Seriously. After the singer was...
-
Playbill
Emery, with Army of Me, Envy on the Coast, and the Almost
By Michael Gallucci
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 Seattle, with images of superstardom...
-
Rotation
The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age of the Understatement
By Michael Gallucci
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 Saturday-night debauchery. With their new...
-
Playbill
Natasha Bedingfield, with Kate Voegele and the Veronicas
By Michael Gallucci
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 singer-songwriter Voegele....
-
Rotation
Robyn: Robyn
By Michael Gallucci
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 Love." Then she disappeared. This...
-
Playbill
The BellRays and Architects, with Vice and Deadbird
By Michael Gallucci
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 frontwoman Lisa Kekaula, whose...
-
Rotation
The Whigs: Mission Control|What Made Milwaukee Famous: What Doesn't Kill Us
By Michael Gallucci and Chris Gray
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, there are signs they grew up...
-
Rotation
Shelby Lynne: Just a Little Lovin'
By Michael Gallucci
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 Lynne — which transformed the hard-luck...
-
Playbill
British Sea Power, with Film School, Colour Music and the Watermarks
By Michael Gallucci
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 Decline of British Sea Power, they penned...
-
Playbill
Black Mountain
By Michael Gallucci
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 requires the assistance of at least...
-
Rotation
The Cribs: Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
By Michael Gallucci
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 released here. But their new...
-
Music
White Williams is No Average Joe
By Michael Gallucci
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 hear ass-shaking tunes, and no...
-
Wack
The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists
A new book compiles punk's greatest hits and biggest dicks
By Michael Gallucci
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 biggest schlong?" Or maybe you're...
-
Rotation
Daft Punk: Alive 2007
By Michael Gallucci
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 knockout light show, thousands of...
-
Music
2007 Music Year in Review
By Chris Gray, Arielle Castillo, Michael Gallucci, Sarah Askari, Jennifer Maerz, Niki D'Andrea, Lina Lecaro, Jason Harper, Annie Zaleski and Dave Segal
Published: December 13, 2007
The holidays are a time of family, schmaltzy Christmas commercials that somehow make you cry and, for music journalists, list-making. Lots and lots of list-making. Over the...
-
Rotation
Babyshambles: Shotter's Nation
By Michael Gallucci
Published: December 13, 2007
In his spare time, when he's not dodging jail sentences or fighting with his supermodel girlfriends, habitual drug abuser Pete Doherty makes music. But he really hasn't...
-
Rotation
Avenged Sevenfold, Avenged Sevenfold
By Michael Gallucci
Published: November 22, 2007
In the past, Avenged Sevenfold's meathead simplicity pretty much excused all its bad behavior and even worse musical choices. It was as if the five members picked up, pored...
Now Click This
