Name: Dave Powers
Weblog: newmusicnation.com [RSS]
Articles: 17
First Published: Sunday, February 4, 2007
Last Published: Thursday, April 5, 2007
Currently listing articles 17-1:
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Music Review: Blonde Redhead - 23— The mood on 23 is brighter, more wide-eyed and enchanting than their last album.
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Indie Rockers Making Family-Friendly Music— They Might Be Giants have helped inspire a trend to mix indie rock with more family-friendly music and lyrics.
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Music Review: Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank— A beefier, more mainstream-rock-radio-friendly Modest Mouse.
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Chris Cornell to Tour, Career Retrospective, and Album Preview— Now as a solo artist once again, the release date has been set for Cornell’s second album.
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The Polyphonic Spree: New Look, New Album, New Label— They’ve “folded their robes up nicely and put them away for now.”
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Music Review: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Living With the Living— Melodic punk with do-it-yourself passion, political conviction and a well-read vocabulary.
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America Waits Two More Months For The View— This week was going to a busy one for Scottish band The View.
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Music Review: The National Lights - The Dead Will Walk, Dear— Jacob Thomas Berns’ ability to sing such sadistic words in tender and relaxed tones can be comical
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My Brightest Diamond Gets Remixed— Frontwoman Shara Worden unleashed some of the most chilling and ominous vocals since the Portishead albums in the mid-90s.
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Music Review: K-Os - Atlantis - Hymns For Disco— He moves even further beyond his rhymin’ roots.
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Music Review: Tim Fite - Over the Counter Culture— Criticism of the co-opting and commercialization of hip hop culture to market and sell products for big business
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All-Star Hip Hop Collaboration For Air Force One’s Anniversary— To commemorate the anniversary Nike commissioned a Rick Rubin-produced track featuring Kanye West, Nas and KRS-One on the mic.
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Metallica to Begin Recording With Rick Rubin in March— Of course, Rick Rubin is the genius behind so many amazing recordings from the last two decades.
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The Police Announce Reunion Tour Dates, Sting’s Son’s Band Is Opening Act— Joe Sumner has been blessed with a powerful and distinct set of pipes like his father.
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Andrew Bird Set To Release Seventh Studio Album— Based on the new track, “Heretic,” it sounds like Bird will be back to his old tricks.
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David Lee Roth Reunites with Van Halen— After weeks of rumors, a Van Halen reunion tour is now official.
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Music Review: Sarah Shannon - City Morning Song— Nothing like the scrappy indie-rock of Velocity Girl (her former band)… much more like the classic pop of Carole King.

