Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Before releasing its second album, We, the Vehicles, Milwaukee’s Maritime lost its original third wheel, former Dismemberment Plan bassist Eric Axelson. Justin Klug stepped in to fill the role, but another big personnel change came before the next release, this year’s […]
Chris Parker
Bio: After a fond stint in the Triangle, Chris Parker lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where he writes about music and politics for a variety of newspapers and magazines. He has written about music for INDY Week since 2002.
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Snatches of Pink
• Watch the Snatches of Pink trailer on YouTube Every town has to have its own nearly do-wells, the envy of their ne’er-do-well neighbors, who somehow still self-destruct short of the finish line. While Snatches of Pink and Clarissa both went to the summit, enjoying a major label tenure and a bid for radio play, […]
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Cool John Ferguson
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. “I can’t seem to do the right things for you,” Cool John Ferguson croons on With These Hands’ centerpiece, “Let Me Be Your Man.” His voice is as stirring an instrument as the six-string he wields so capably, able to proffer […]
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David Kilgour
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. David Kilgour suffuses ’60s psych-folk jangle with a light, atmospheric drone, like a vibrant, pastoral watercolor translated into pop music. Shiny hooks glitter through shimmering textures, fueled by a crisp tenor and the dulcet ring of strummed strings. The somnambulant grace […]
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Busdriver
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Busdriver is a Los Angeles rapper who was born into hip hop: His father wrote the screenplay for the 1985 hip-hop label fable, Krush Groove, and Busdriver’s styleself-conscious rollercoaster rhymes delivered in the joyous, goofy lilt of a black indie Eminem, […]
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Scout Niblett’s “Kiss”
Listen! Download “Kiss” (MP3, 9 MB) or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. • Watch the video for “Kiss” on YouTube “Kiss” opens with a lone guitar sketching an austere, bluesy sweep. Will Oldham joins Scout Niblett along with the drums and bass, and they […]
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River City Rebels
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. We all mature at different rates: Like adolescents entering puberty, bands will sometimes undergo dramatic growth spurts. In 2004, that’s what started to happen with River City Rebels, suddenly transforming them into something beyond run-of-the-mill punk revivalists. They adopted a grittier […]
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Qui
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Onstage, David Yow staggers and mumbles like Iggy Pop and Lee Ving’s retarded child. The Ex-Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid singer has cultivated the stage persona of a whiskey-addled force of nature, incoherently conversing with the burning bush where we only see golden […]
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Vic Chesnutt’s “You Are Never Alone”
Listen! Download “You Are Never Alone” (6.6 MB) or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. The song begins gentle and graceful, like a bittersweet lullaby rocking on lilting organ waves and a particularly tart twang guitar. The rhythm section arrives just before Chesnutt, in a […]
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John Lee Hooker Jr.
• Streaming MP3 coming Thursday… According to John Lee Hooker Jr., if he tried to fill his father’s shoes, he’d get cramps trying to take one step. The legacy of the great blues master is a shadow over John Lee Jr.’s life and career. And though the younger Hooker doesn’t bristle outright about that relationship, […]