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It’s Hip to Be Square
I love hipsters, I really do. I know I make fun of 'em a lot, saying they're too cool for school, that they're way...
Jason Boland & the Stragglers
Jason Boland & the Stragglers promote themselves as country outlaws, but if their new c.d. is any indication, they might be in a transition...
The Burden Brothers
No reason to describe this one in faux-poetic terms or edu-ma-cational journalism. The Burden Brothers’ new album Mercy rocks your backside about 75 percent...
The Damnwells
The Damnwells have come a long way since recording their debut c.d., the stripped-down Bastards of the Beat, in a mini-storage unit in Manhattan....
Red Scare
The five guys in Red Monroe think of themselves primarily as a live act — they say that onstage is where their bombastic post-punk...
Urizen
Urizen is a local metal quartet, though “metal” may be too limited a word to describe exactly the kind of racket Urizen makes. Their...
Nina Simone
The very concept is a bit jarring: Take one of the most socially conscious, independent, folk-jazz, whatever-style-she-wanted-to-sing artists from the 1960s. Ask some of...
Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Multitalented artist Will Oldham has kept busy over the past couple of years.
He’s acted in critically acclaimed films, including last year’s Junebug and...
Doug Sahm
Maybe Doug Sahm never became a household name because he wasn’t an easy-to-categorize, one-note musician.
He wandered through blues, R&B, country, Tex-Mex, rock, and,...
Packing Gatts, Clocking SAT’s
Nerdcore reached its nadir, to use a geeky term, a few years ago, with the debut c.d. from novelty act MC Hawking. The make-believe...
