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7/12/00
Liz's
law
All-night radio jock and club DJ
Liz Copeland connects the wires of Detroit electronica at
this weekend's upcoming live music extravaganza, Sonic
Boom.
7/12/00
The
land of the twee
An MT Web exclusive: A tourist's guide to the People's
Republic of Belle and Sebastian, the world's premiere wimpy band.
7/5/00
Misshapen
identity
Recently signed to a Hollywood label,
local foursome Elephant Gerald slides between a few old genres
into something sexy.
7/5/00
Licensed
to ill
An MT Web exclusive: His recent legal troubles
have kept him in the headlines ... Eminem has our attention, but
what's he going to do with it?
7/5/00
Beyond
the beat
In divided
Detroit, the Concert of Colors festival brings all kinds of ethnic
groups together to celebrate world music and culture.
6/28/00
Undulating
(e)motion
Emo pioneer Sunny Day Real Estate
rides the tide of breakups, a changing music scene and personal epiphanies.
6/28/00
Other review:
URB
No. 75, June 2000
XLR8R
No. 42, Summer 2000
6/21/00
Prometheus
unbanned
Bare-toned alto saxophonist and
demandingly precise jazz composer and bandleader Greg Osby leads
a soulful, heroic quartet at the SereNgeti.
6/21/00
The
late, great...
As part of the granddaddy generation of rockers, he looks
pretty good. But how does he hold up on stage? "Lou Reed is
dead. Long live Lou Reed!"
6/21/00
Feelin'
it
The
three-day Frog Island Festival 2000 features a red hot 'n' cool
afternoon of Motor City jazz, with Sheila Landis, Wendell Harrison,
Larry Nozero and Lyman Woodard.
6/14/00
Underground
to the Bone
After a stellar performance at the
Detroit Electronic Music Festival, DJ Bone unearths Detroit
techno with his new mix compilation.
6/14/00
A
taste of Brazil
An MT Web exclusive: Sample
a smorgasbord of new South American sounds ... a new generation
is busy rewiring electronic music with Brazilian musical guts.
6/7/00
Visit
to strange lands
Emerging from similar avant-garde
influences and aesthetics, but shaped by different continents ... Stereolab
meets Sonic Youth out past the reverbo-sphere.
5/31/00
The
preacher & the saxophone
Those who attend one of James
Carter's concerts just might experience the equivalent of a spiritual
epiphany. Carter's new inspirations flow from a Motor City soul; his calling
is to elevate jazz to new realms.
5/31/00
Boys
cry plenty
An MT Web exclusive: What's the surest sign of a dead music
scene? Veteran bands signing to major labels? Here's everything you need
to know about emo – now that it's all over.
5/24/00
High-voltage
mastermind
"Every music is electronic music
right now," says Carl Craig, CEO of Planet E Records, world-renowned
producer, DJ-at-large and artistic director for the first Detroit Electronic
Music Festival.
5/24/00
Three
to get ready
They're making new waves in Detroit techno – Carlos
Souffront, Fanon Flowers and Theorem – and helping
to broaden what's meant by the “Detroit sound.”
5/24/00
Scratch
happy
An MT Web exclusive: His new record is a funky turntable
collage of loopy tracks cut with chicken clucks and banjo-playing ...
but Canadian scratch DJ Kid Koala isn't kidding around.
5/24/00
One
nation, underground
An MT Web exclusive: Inside the real indie electronic
music movement, where the Internet has obliterated the need for a
geographical "scene."
5/24/00
Rock
your testimonials
A sonic Molotov cocktail par excellence, Primal Scream
plays the soundtrack for protest dancin' in the streets, making music
that moves both head and ass.
5/24/00
Leave
them all behinds
New York DJ-production team and junkyard junglists Ming + FS get back to party rocking on the "Deep Concentration" tour.
5/17/00
Hard
again
During his nearly five decades in
the music business, Detroit's own Sir Mack Rice has penned some
of the most popular rhythm and blues hits ever. These days, the R&B
veteran is busy trying to outlive his past.
5/17/00
Ragged
glory
An MT Web exclusive: Neil Young's brilliant new
DVD, Silver & Gold, is just the latest in a string of
excellent long-form videos. This new one documents the songwriter's deceptively
simple live work.
5/10/00
Meta-Mahler
New York-based pianist Uri Caine
has assembled an amazing group of musicians to rev up the classics ...
using jazz riffs and turntables to reinterpret the works of classical
composer Gustav Mahler.
5/3/00
Aural
visioning
An MT Web exclusive:
Graham Lock's scholarly but passionate book vamps on philosophy with Sun
Ra, Anthony Braxton and Duke Ellington, and offers a
wealth of information and interviews.
5/3/00
Gettin'
the hook-ups
By the sounds of several rap singles, gear seems to be
just as important to an artist’s repertoire as the lyrics. Check out these
one-stop hip-hop fashion shops which cater to Detroit's players.
4/26/00
Autobahn
road trip
German electronic duo Mouse on Mars delivers monsters of rock to
dance floor thinkers by flipping switches, twisting knobs and even (gasp!)
strumming strings.
4/19/00
Rising
spirit
Folks don’t discuss D'Angelo's
singing. They talk about his movement. His calling. His having been chosen
as the next rung in black music’s evolutionary ladder.
4/19/00
And
the winner is...
Visit the 2000 Detroit Music Awards Web site for a complete
list of this year's winning acts.
4/19/00
An
ever-ripening "Fruit"
An MT Web exclusive: The powerful tale of Billie Holiday's
most famous song, "Strange Fruit" ... How just 12 lines
of lyrics captivated nightclub audiences, terrified promoters, and inspired
activists in the 1940s.
4/19/00
Not
fade away
The first stab at rock crit legend Lester Bangs’ life
finds the heart of a man who became the walking archetype for the aspiring rock writer.
4/12/00
Hometown
heroes
Detroit's rap champs Eminem, Kid
Rock and Insane Clown Posse didn't rush off to Hollywood at
the first sign of success – they've stayed local, keeping the spotlight
on the 313.
4/12/00
Higher
learning
Hip-hop contender Paradime takes his lessons from those
who came before, but
is the first to point out that his take on the Detroit rap sound
is a proudly unconventional one.
4/12/00
Sex
and travel
One of Britain’s wittiest and stylistically adventurous
songwriters, Pat Fish (aka the Jazz Butcher) has been making peerless
pop for 20 years, but still can't seem to break up the band. PLUS:
A Web-exclusive
chat with the Butcher on music, movies, Kid Rock, guns and
more.
4/12/00
Guerilla
culture-jam
From the lowliest cable-access commercial to the latest Pepsi
ad, found-sound collective Negativland treats the pre-existing
cultural spectrum as a readymade source for its sonic collage art.
4/5/00
Far
afield
An MT Web exclusive: Detroit's
most adventurous musical travelers, the Immigrant Suns, have journeyed
far and wide ... now they share their homemade works from around the globe.
4/5/00
Polycultural
polyrhythms
Percussionist Susie Ibarra illuminates worlds of rhythm,
drawing on her experiences playing Philippine kulintang, rock,
Latin and West African music. Whatever her influences, she thrives on
pursuit of the new.
3/29/00
Savoir
flair
Rock music was never meant to travel down
the middle of the road. Never fear – here come heroes Les Savy
Fav, ready to bring the party and save the day, answering the
call to make rock 'n' roll fun again.
3/22/00
The
kids are all righteous
Michiganfest 2000 is a weekend-long
celebration of the do-it-yourself youth scene, mixing indie
and punk rock with politics and community activism.
3/22/00
Affairs
of the heart
Balancing heartfelt lyrical honesty with angst-filled pop-punk,
some might call it emo ... but Chicago's Alkaline Trio would rather
not be shoved into any particular category.
3/15/00
Blowing
it out!
Every blowout has an aftermath ... here's
a pictorial recap of the sights and sounds and jam-packed crowds
of this year's Hamtramck Blowout (including dozens of photos we
couldn't fit into the paper). Plus: Review the entire weekend's
line-up, complete with active links to our own Sonic Metropolis band guide.
3/08/00
One
nation under a grin
The pairing of Paris the Black Fu
and Andy Toth has resulted in Detroit's most promising single of
the last decade – and questions about what these guys are doing together.
Operating outside Detroit's usual techno mainframe, the Detroit Grand
Pubahs have the last laugh.
3/08/00
Seven
the hard way
We're shakin' the bones for a Motor City rock'n'bankroll with
stories about seven local musicians you should bet the house on:
Richard
Panic and his lush, romantic fusion ... Modern, real-deal punk
from the Clone Defects
... New electro-traditionalists, Year
of the Robot ... Ex-Gov.
Agent's self-aware, socially conscious rhymes ... A drummer evolving
into a noise-beat Persona
... Positive, creative vibes from Soul
2 Eclipse ... & Haunting, alt-country harmonies from Denise
James. PLUS: Listen to songs by many of these artists
– and hundreds more – at Sonic
Metropolis.
3/08/00
Jazz
(re)generator
One of the few Detroit nightspots where you'll find three generations
of jazz lovers rubbing elbows, Baker's Keyboard Lounge gets hot
with a rebirth of the cool.
3/01/00
Same
as it never was
Critics call it one of the finest working
musical partnerships in contemporary American music, but Yo La Tengo
just wants to make one incredible record at a time.
2/23/00
Angels
on decks
Don't call it a she thing. Motor's
all-female DJ night – "Halo: Angels on Vinyl" –
is a pitch-perfect mix of intuition and sonic flight, featuring local
favorites Magda, Punisher and Liz Copeland.
2/16/00
Keepin'
it ersatz
Transforming this city's legacy of techno
into a self-created world of techno-pop, innovative Detroit label Ersatz
Audio puts on a show combining sound, art and design, inventing
its own sound and its own way to experience music.
2/09/00
Pop
the clutch
Detroit punk heroes the Suicide Machines
shift gears on their latest self-titled recording, but they keep the rock
rolling ... which should keep their legions of faithful fans happy.
2/09/00
The
burning man
An MT Web exclusive: A vinyl lover gets on the CD-burner bandwagon,
and gives you a leg up on the equipment and programs you'll need to climb
aboard.
2/02/00
Soul
set free
The authors of The Black Chord use interviews,
history and personalities as examples of how black music has influenced
lives worldwide to tie the African diaspora together.
2/02/00
Steamed
'n' venting
Taking an eclectic sociopolitical-aggro-rap-goth-Middle Eastern
musical approach, System of a Down wields a musical message of
hardcore, universal catharsis.
1/26/00
Multiply
by three
Detroit
trio the Numbers is a rock band – simple but not plain. They
do the math and rock the masses with energetic and romantic style ...
and you can dance to it!
1/26/00
Ring
their bell
Detroit punk wrestlers the Bump-n-Uglies
aren't afraid to shed a little blood for the sake of rock'n'roll. (And
they have the medical records to prove it.)
1/19/00
Dancing
drums
The infectious beat of Northern
India's Punjab region crosses oceans and highways to catch the
world's ear.
1/12/00
Overlooked
and underplayed
An MT Web exclusive: Check this
list before you use your holiday record store gift certificates ... these
overlooked 1999 CDs were hand-picked for you by three (count 'em)
music specialists from across the country.
1/12/00
From the heads
of quiet kids
Ann Arbor indie improvers, Flashpapr, make connections
in a disconnected world. Read the story, then listen
to their latest glorious recording on Sonic Metropolis.
1/05/00
Gone
fishin'
Blues piano legend Pinetop Perkins
is a big fish in a big pond.
1/05/00
Overlooked
and underplayed
An MT Web exclusive: Belated hype for 1999 CDs that might have
been overlooked.
1/05/00
From the heads
of quiet kids
Ann Arbor indie improvers, Flashpapr, make connections
in a disconnected world. Read the story, then listen
to their latest glorious recording on Sonic Metropolis.
12/29/99
Musical
matriarch
Hamtramck
rock 'n' roll matron Lili Karwowski opened her doors and her heart
and nurtured a music scene.
12/29/99
Sound
memories
Metro Times’ musical aficionados try not to forget a year
of fantastic moments.
12/22/99
Down the line
Detroit
pop-punk septet Telegraph keeps the good times rolling for the
friends they've made along the way. Read the unabridged online
interview, then
listen
to their latest song on Sonic Metropolis.
12/22/99
Taking up
a collection
An MT Web exclusive:
CD retrospectives for the millennium assemble
songs for every taste and every decade.
12/22/99
Roll &
rock into 2000
Local New Year's blowouts promise
great music – and good odds for smooching with strangers.
12/15/99
Chill
communication
Detroit's Soul Clique
is sending messages to your inner freak. Listen up, now!
12/08/99
Of
mice and myth
Usually
musicians move from Detroit and to California, but Starlite
Desperation isn't your stereotypical rock n' roll band.
12/08/99
Moroccan
roll
Hassan Hakmoun
is the world's pre-eminent master of Gnawa trance music ... his modern
ancient sound transcends time and category.
12/08/99
A
digital revolution
An MT Web exclusive:
Portable MP3 players offer more than the latest techno-craze.
12/08/99
Tunes
for long winter's night
They'll package it up, but you don't
have to buy the same old holiday music every year.
11/24/99
All
together now
Ten Detroit musicians
assemble the pieces of their musical dream band, including all-time
favorite vocalists, drummers and ... toaster players?
11/17/99
Cyclical
soundworld
Mixing Cuban rhythms,
punk rock and acoustic folk, Café Tacuba is an innovative
Mexican band whose crazy musical wisdom makes sense of life's loopy logic.
11/10/99
Trans-Europe
express
A new generation of Detroit artists takes Detroit
techno back to Belgium and back to basics.
10/27/99
Everybody
knows my name
Kid
Rock's sold out homecoming Palace concert
makes his point, firmly, with the middle finger – a rite of personal
victory for the top dog who played underdog for years.
10/27/99
Record-setting
goals
To get new songs heard, record labels send them
to pool directors, who then distribute them to local club DJs
... giving unknown records a chance to make a hit on the dance floor.
10/20/99
"Just
a little bit..."
Rhino's
latest retrospective of 20th Century women in American pop is a
wild musical success ... but it presents a rather mixed political message
10/20/99
MT
Libs
Our crack music staff makes it easy for you
to create your own witty commentary on pop music. Simply fill in
the blanks and presto! You're a music critic!
10/20/99
Renaissance
sound fiend
DJ-producer Andrea Parker keeps one ear to the ground and one
foot in dance music's past. PLUS: Parker shares the bill with local
techno-generic duo Adult.
10/13/99
School
for stompin'
Jam sessions have always
been part of the jazz culture ... every Monday night, pianist Teddy
Harris continues the tradition by sharing sacred ground with young
musicians.
10/13/99
Throw
your set in the air!
It's a fun glimpse into the minds of
several hip hop superstars, but MTV's book ultimately comes
off as a personal scrapbook for groupies bragging about which celebrities
they've rubbed shoulders with.
10/6/99
Laughing
at the edges
After 25 years, the Willem Breuker Kollektief
keeps the avant-garde fun by just doing it. Read about the Kollektief
and other modern musical artists performing at Edgefest '99 in
Ann Arbor.
9/29/99
Afro-pop
français
Breakthrough international duo Les Nubians have done a new thing with the vision that was hip hop ... their
musical lifeblood flows from the Bronx to Bordeaux and back again.
9/22/99
Live
through this
Indie-rockers Superchunk
want to create music that lasts, makes you think, and dares you to
find a life less ordinary.
9/22/99
Wild
horses
Sneak
a peek into an unauthorized biography of rock poet Patti Smith,
who created a new genre for herself: raw, undomesticated, electric and
sexy.
9/15/99
Hell,
yeah!
Tenacious D,
a comedy duo who plays acoustic heavy metal, is a little nervous about
playing Detroit Rock City. (This from guys who have jammed with Sasquatch?)
9/8/99
Still
flying high
British Invasion legends the Pretty Things continue taking
maximum R&B to sonic new heights.
9/8/99
Fall-out
An MT Fallguide '99 special feature: Metro Detroit's local
music scene gets unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Be ready... listening
is your only defense.
9/1/99
Stolen
moments
The saxophones may have stopped ringing, but you can still relive
20 years of magic in our Web-exclusive photo gallery of Montreux
Jazz Festivals gone by.
8/25/99
Maxwell
loves yo stankin' draws
The
sweet soul singer and heartthrob is candid, congenial and controversial
– "You kidding? Detroit is my heart, yo!"
8/25/99
Soul
survivors
Detroit
house music label Nouveau Riche Entertainment mixes old-school
sound with next-school business... and they believe it's music worth fighting
for.
8/4/99
Downtown
hounds
Detroit
avant-music thrillers Blue Dog mix bytes and barks just the way
they wanna.
8/4/99
Old
school benefits
L.A.
rhymers Jurassic 5 make no bones about the "up"
in straight-up hip hop.
8/4/99
Shine
on
Memories
of reggae crown prince Dennis Brown, who stirred the pot of the
soul with his lover's rock.
7/28/99
Hooks,
lines and singers
Detroit's
experimental pop underground throws one helluva coming-out party –
bands Fletcher Pratt
and Cloud Car are among the guests of honor.
7/21/99
Revenge
of the mohawks
Coming soon to Pontiac, the Vans Warped Tour and Social Chaos
Tour package punk rock for post-punk mass programming.
7/21/99
Clear the
decks!
A sonic revolution that inspires
rioting in the streets – Berlin's Atari Teenage Riot brings the noise to burn.
7/7/99
Aye
aye aye, Cap'n
Two
new CD anthologies attempt to sail the seas of avant-rock deity Captain
Beefheart.
7/7/99
Six-string
pirates
One year after its closing,
the On Line Guitar Archive fights to keep the music public.
7/7/99
Future
perfect
In Dan Sicko's new
book, techno's tale finds new light in a brief history of music's future
past.
7/7/99
Wise
blood
Denver
alt-country quartet Sixteen Horsepower lives to chase the Holy
Ghost another day.
6/30/99
Satan's
apprentice
How
MT music editor Chris Handyside learned the heart of rock 'n' roll
darkness lies at the bottom of a $7 cup of beer.
6/23/99
13
reasons why...
De
La Soul is the most creative rap group of all time.
6/23/99
Summertime
songs
Sweet
street sounds in the open air market.
6/16/99
Cosmicomic
Japan's
Boredoms take their art apart with what's around them.
6/9/99
Sonic
rumbling
Detroit
producer-sound provider Jay Dee and Slum Village are fixing
to serve the world a heavy dose of Detroit hip-hop.
6/2/99
The
real deals
Ypsilanti indie label ReAl stirs the
pot of Michigan music.
6/2/99
Expressive
locations
A sampling
of spots boasting hip-hop regularity.
6/2/99
Sonic
rumbling
Detroit
producer-sound provider Jay Dee and Slum Village are fixing
to serve the world a heavy dose of Detroit hip-hop.
5/26/99
1+1=3
Detroit
duo White Stripes mixes basic elements into simple beauty.
5/5/99
Raisin'
hell
Detroit rapper Esham's long and winding road out of the independent
underworld.
4/28/99
The
Duke meets the Duke
On the
occassion of Duke Ellington's birthday, we present the 100th anniversary
"inner -view" that should have been.
4/28/99
Magic,
music memories
It was
a slam, jam, alakazam, magic Music Awards program at the State Theatre
on Friday night.
4/28/99
Motor
mods
Midnight in Hamtown's boiler room of glam and glory.
4/28/99
Deep
space woodsmen
The Northwoods Improvisers bring
their ethnographic sounds of the world to the jazz stage.
4/21/99
Downward
nobility
A decade ago, Underworld discovered dance music. Some career
move.
4/21/99
Mechanicollusion
Finnish duo Pan Sonic work the electronic buffer between the academy
and the dance floor.
4/14/99
Cross-pond
traffic
Bringing together a unique mix of American blues, electic recording experiments
and modern indie-pop, Gomez's funky rumuniations leave Brit-pop
in the dust.
4/14/99
Outer space productions
Here's
how one-time fans become music promoters, all for the love of the art.
PLUS: An array of Detroit-Area DIY
promoters have taken the lead in growing noncommercial culture
beneath the big-league radar.
4/7/99
Conn-man
of the apocalypse
Bobby
Conn entertains us with his minimalist rock opera while we wait for
the end of the world.
3/31/99
South
of heaven
Detroit
electro brings the 313 underground to Miami's Winter Music Conference.
3/24/99
A fine romance
Folkie
offspring Rufus
Wainright belts out pop arias to love.
3/24/99
Migration
of soul
Gypsy
music's long and winding road finds its way to town.
3/17/99
Deeply rooted
With
an MO that covers nearly all aspects of hip-hop culture, The Roots reset the standard for
hip-hop excellence.
3/10/99
Droppin' the dime
A ten
spot of Detroit's richest sonic bucks, featuring hip-hop rockers Soul
Clique, postrock quartet Ground
EFX, androgynous fantasy trio Queen
Bee, national hip-hop rep Royce
the 5-9, turntablists Combined
Individuals, old schoolers Binary
Star, hip-hop pioneer DJ
Marquis, power-punk-pop trio the
Sights, soul artist Kem
L. Owens, and rock subverters They
Come in Threes.
3/10/99
Lasting imprints
Detroit-based
record labels are starting to flourish in a cultural climate that's ever
more fertile.
3/10/99
Inch-by-inch
A Ferndale native is at the center of the off-broadway
gender-bending phenomenon Hedwig and the Angry
Inch -- a sweet transsexual tale of rock 'n'
redemption.
PLUS: Read the review
of the musical's soundtrack album.
2/17/99
Dear Lauryn
An open
letter to Lauryn
Hill, who -- juggling celebrity, tykes and
artistry -- couldn't squeeze another journalist into her day planner.
2/17/99
Where hip
hop lives
Sure
he's a cute white kid, but Detroit rapper Eminem
is not the offical candy of the new millennium.
2/17/99
Grand pianists
There's
no time like the present to harvest a turn-of-the-century bumper crop
of fresh piano virtuosi.
2/10/99
Bomb the bossa
nova
The
unbelievable -- but absolutely true! -- story of Brazil's unsung rock
revolutionaries Os
Mutantes.
2/10/99
Neither/Nordic
Contrary
to popular belief, Swedish pop outfit the
Cardigans' music isn't exactly like it's always
been.
2/3/99
Rock and refusual
The
furor over a recent benefit concert for famed death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal pushes the controversial
figure further into mainstream consciousness.
2/3/99
Between clever
& stupid
In this
roundtable discussion, Detroit's songwriters talk around craft, community,
life's purpose and the muse.
1/27/99
Dues of the
blues
Detroit's
unquestioned queen of the blues Alberta
Adams knows where she's been and where it's
at.
1/20/99
Slaying the
dragon
Detroit's
Asian hip-hop community is adding a new flavor to the chocolate soul of
D-town and the vanilla suburbs north of Eight Mile.
1/20/99
A Handel on
Brahms
George Bulanda explores
the controversery behind "early music" -- classical performances played
on authentic period instruments.
12/30/98
Top
Ten Music
Our
reviewers pick the best and most important releases of 1998.
12/30/98
The year in BPM culture
Electronic
music continued to find its way into the mainstream. If you weren't
there, here's how it happened.
12/23/98
Jazz
Inc.
The
bottom line threatens the creative line in corporate America's approach
to the music.
12/16/98
Just
say Fertita, for now
First
you build the better pop band from the songs up. Then you worry about
the name.
12/16/98
Johnnie
on the go
Hittin'
the road with living Detroit blues legend Johnnie Bassett.
12/9/98
Yule-side
swingin'
MT crits
pick the finest antidotes to Bing Crosby and Muzak this season. From Judy
Garland to Etta James to the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
12/2/98
On the outside looking
in
Outkast
rappers follow their own lights as Harpo's this Saturday.
12/2/98
¡Manos arriba!
Dances
from the islands warm up the straits of Detroit.
12/2/98
Hot peas
Dining
out on LAs hip-hop positive legumes.
11/18/98
Bring that
beat down
The
funk is back, the hope is real: Detroit house music returns to its roots.
11/18/98
Sonic
emporium
U-M's
always-new Contemporary Directions Ensemble.
PLUS:
Upcoming classical happenings
in and around Detroit AND a record review of the classical recording
Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 1.
11/04/98
Doctor
of bluesology
Phil
Lasley heats up that good old jazz medicine.
10/21/98
International
music of mystery
In a
global pop market place, Le Grand Magistery is the karaoke lounge.
10/14/98
Funky
transport
Plastilina Mosh travels
its own musical trade routes on its way to the dance floor.
10/14/98
Mystery
dance
Detroit Artists Market's
music and video show does the horizontal-hold mambo.
10/14/98
Doing
Puccini proud
MOT's
Turandot is, above all, a vocal
treasure.
PLUS: Upcoming
classical happenings in and around Detroit AND a record review of
the classical recording The
Seasons-Helios-Night Music by Thea Musgrave.
10/07/98
Somewhere
outside the rainbow
San
Francisco's Caroliner takes the singing bull by the horns.
9/30/98
Shards
of glass
Minimalist
Philip Glass sends flashes of mindfulness into the Hollywood void.
9/23/98
The
saxman cometh
John
Lurie explains goose bumps, fishing and stinky Lizards.
9/16/98
Love
will tear us apart
Singer
dramas, loud guitars, endless touring, band fights: Can Massive Attack survive being a
rock band?
9/16/98
Strikin'
the mother lode
An expanded
reissue of garage psychedelia's family album looks through the past brightly.
9/9/98
Cinematic
soundworld
Chicago's
Pinetop
Seven lets the music do the walking.
9/2/98
Ashes
& diamonds
Activist
folk-punk troubadour Billy
Bragg's labor of love helps reaffirm the bond
between us all.
9/298
Spontaneous
combustion
Jazz
violinist Regina
Carter brings the heat back home.
9/298
Jazz
architect
All-star
trombonist Curtis
Fuller has built a super sonic reputation.
8/27/98
Freak
that bunny down
Florida's
Rabbit
In The Moon bring area-sized spectacle to the
Detroit party underground.
8/27/98
More
than the dozens
Toasts,
taunts and tall tales from behind bars reveal the roots of rap.
PLUS: Jailhouse scribes: An interview with Bruce Franklin,
author of Prison Writing: In
20th Century America.
8/19/98
Back
to the front
Detroit
techno militants Underground Resistance rethink the politics of dancing
for the hometown market.
8/12/98
Sweetheart's
dance
Neko Case & Her Boyfriends bring their
love (of country) to town.
7/29/98
One-woman
encyclopedia
It all
started with a girl, her old sampling machine and an even older eight-track
recorder. Line up to beam up on Solex's ray of sampling.
7/15/98
Not
necessarily the blues
Columbus,
Ohio's Bassholes carve pre millennial blues from the swamp of life.
7/8/98
Healing
the body
Afro-Cuban
music's rhythm therapy is a timeless cure.
7/8/98
Raw
stories
Alejandro
Escovedo combines the rough and the elegant as a song-writing renaissance
man.
7/1/98
Multi-kulti
crossroads
Africa Fete brings
the musical news from a rich continent.
7/1/98
Growing
all over
Creeper Lagoon fertilizes
pop with a world of sounds.
6/17/98
Sympathy
for the upright
Shane
MacGowan has seen the devil in his mirror and lives to tell about it.
6/10/98
The
last jazz purist
Larry
Smith tells it like it is and plays it like it lays.
6/10/98
Future's
past
Kraftwerk
does it with machines that travel in time
5/20/98
Passion
& pathos
Jeff
Buckley's last will and testament.
5/13//98
Carbonated
love
MOT's
Donizetti potion both sparkles & fades.
5/6/98
No pomp, all circumstance
Poet-musician
Mick
Vranich keeps all ears on what's being said.
4/22/98
Soprano
showcase
Ruth Ann Swenson
takes Manon to thrilling heights.
4/22/98
Nude
photo
Goldie, the face of drum 'n' bass, tries his hand at two turntables
and no microphone.
4/15/98
Veteran
debutante
With
20 years of music under his belt, Nikki
Sudden is finally landing on American shores.
3/18/98
Rumble
in the jungle
From
across the ocean, England's Roni
Size-Reprazent deliver on music's promise.
3/11/98
It
takes a village
Hip-hop
crew makes no apologies in its quest for the gold.
3/11/98
Bass
is the place
And
booty is the judge of Detroit's street sound.
3/11/98
Steppin'
out
Detroit's
Atomic
Fireballs just want to move your dancing feet.
3/4/98
A Deeper well
Ben Harper points
to the future by internalizing musics past.
2/18/98
Boppin'
the blues
Detroit jazz trumpeter Dwight Adams
swings to the forefront.
2/11/98
Eclectic
ladyland
Livonia
quartet His
Name Is Alive chooses its own path toward musical
reconstruction.
2/4/98
Life
in the Fezhouse
Dearborn
quartet links rock 'n' roll to the future through the ghosts of musics
past.
12/28/97
Don't walk
away in silence
A new Joy
Division box set reveals the tragedy-framed
band's music as both timeless and out of its time.
12/17/97
Return
of the fly
Sound track
rerelease proves that Curtis
Mayfield really knew the score.
12/17/97
Demonic
deducers
There but for
lasers and smoke machines goes Detroit's Wildbunch.
12/17/97
Surf music
Detroit's musical
community's approach to online marketing is as diverse as the music it
creates.
12/10/97
Thumping
in public
Brit rockers bring anarchy to the top of pop.
12/10/97
Yule
tunes & funky cheer
A gift
list of the outest holiday discs on the market.
12/3/97
Roots,
rock, dancehall
Buju Banton may be a rasta
now, but he has hardly left the dancehall behind.
12/3/97
Obscure
by default
Outrageous Cherry bucks
trends by staying the exception to someone else's rules.
11/26/97
Mad
scientist on the midway
Quintron's one-man carnival menagerie rolls into town.
11/19/97
Faith
& footwork
Singer-songwriter
Jill
Jack finds redemption by doing her muse's bidding.
11/5/97
Out
past the edge
Ann Arbor's
Edgefest
'97 takes 13 hours of musical chances.
11/5/97
Trance
end dance?
Turntable kings
the
Chemical Bros. know it's still only rock'n'roll.
10/22/97
Kids
in the candy shop
How high-tech
Coldcut stays down.
10/22/97
Charming,
but not magic
A menacing
Queen of the Night and the lush designs of Maurice
Sendak are this opera's joys.
10/15/97
Out
living the myth
Ani DiFranco, the person,
speaks with Stewart Francke
about Ani the musician, the goddess and the entrepreneur.
10/15/97
Cape
Verdean blues
Cesaria Evora sings mornas
of longing from the African islands.
10/15/97
Pimping
pop
A word from
our sponsors: Ads pillage your music.
10/8/97
Found-sound
orchestra
LSD, Mozart
and Mr. Rogers in a radio collage.
10/8/97
Music
machines
Ann Arbor bands
build a sound and a solid market.
9/10/97
More
funner than total oblivion
Sloan shuns the road to ruin of mainstream success.
9/3/97
"Sanford
and Sun Ra"
Instrumental
combo Medeski,
Martin and Wood are willing to make you groove:
Wherever, whenever and however.
8/27/97
Two
facets of the jazz diamond, Part 2
Roscoe Mitchell finds universe
in a grain of sound.
8/27/97
Two
facets of the jazz diamond, Part 1
Jimmy McGriff, left, and
Hank Crawford's backbeat
heaven.
8/27/97
Reggae
rebel
Despite the
fall of apartheid, South Africa's Lucky
Dube has plenty of injustice to rail against.
8/27/97
Genetically
altered rock
Larval's cryptic instrumental meddling maps the unknown on John Zorn's label.
8/20/97
America's
secrets revealed
Harry Smith's American folk
music anthology sheds the light of day on a country long gone.
7/30/97
Vulnerable
and volatile
Songwriter Mark Eitzel's gift for bent lyricism
allows listeners in just long enough to change their lives.
7/16/97
The
Detroit Way
The masters
raise a new generation of jazz musicians.
7/16/97
Drag, strip, please
Doll Rods are on high-heeled
quest for global domination.
7/9/97
Mission
and mystery
Punk-style
gospel plays with the truth.
7/2/97
New
music espresso
At Ferndale's
Xhedos Cafe, listening carefully matters. |