Tag Archives: Alternative Rock

In all of the media frenzy over the new Apple Music Store, let us not forget a service that people actually seem to use and like: EMusic, whose only problem seems to be that its catalogue is largely confined to the indie label world. Note BJ Johnson’s review from last …

It’s been a year since Wilco’s now classic Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out on Nonesuch. They are celebrating: thanks for your support, we’re making the previously announced “Australian ep” available here free if you have a copy of YHF. Click on the image above to launch the EP player and …

Man, there’s a lot of great music out there – it drives me insane when people say “they just don’t make ’em like they used to.” In fact they do make ’em like they used to: right now artists are working successfully in virtually all styles and substyles and combinations …

Number Four in a series of Personal Spring Discs: 70's pop punksters, The Rezillos!

Another great release from ’90 under the contemporary folk umbrella (see Amy Correia) – and covering some of the same rootsy terrain as Steve Earle – is Bolsa de Agua from Austin’s Gourds. They throw in the veritable kitchen sink, drawing from bluegrass punk, Tex-Mex, roots rock, Cajun, western, and …

While I was rooting around in the year 2000 thinking about Steve Earle’s Transcendental Blues, I ran across another great record from that year that hasn’t received enough attention, Amy Correia’s Carnival Love. Correia, the daughter of a barber from the small town of Lakeville in southeastern Massachusetts, kind of …

Chad Orzel posted a super cool mix tape last week with comments (of course, this is Blogcritics) and one of the songs on the tape was Steve Earle’s “I Can Wait.” I was very disappointed with Earle’s latest, Jerusalem, but Chad’s post reminded me how much I love Transcendental Blues …

A few beats into the title track of American Hi-Fi’s The Art of Losing (Island), and I was payin’ attention. “That’s Ant Music,” I said to myself, as drummer Brian Nolan did the ol’ soft shoe just before the whole group started bashing into full pop punkery. By the time …

AFI's Sing the Sorrow - and the perils of bargain buys

Our pal Shannon Campbell will soon be our next artist on Blogcritics Radio – boy, is she busy: Don’t forget: Tori Amos Tribute 2003, Saturday April 12 at the Temple Ball Gallery in Carrboro, NC. Doors at 8 p.m., show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10. There are no …