Tag Archives: Alternative Rock

When we last heard from Art Alexakis and the rest of the Everclear gang, they were goin’ about their usual bizness: waxing ruefully nostalgic about their chemically wasted youth, beefing about bad relationships and swiping the occasional non-specific Mellencampism at the boring booboisie – all to the hard-edged, yet VH-1 …

The great punk/funk pioneer bassist Dave Allen has not been idle since veering from the public eye, founding the terrific but overlooked World Domination label, and now pushing the cutting edge artist development-marketing monster, Overland Entertainment. Allen was a founder and the rhythmic heart of one of the most important …

Natalie Merchant is taking the plunge into the indie world: she has left Elektra after 17 years, started her own label, paid for her own recording, and is releasing her new record via her website. Jon Pareles has the scoop: When her Elektra contract expired in August 2002, she chose …

My patient friend Alex Steininger has a pretty fine thing going out there in Portland, the sub-Seattle. He has his own record label, In Music We Trust, his own PR company of the same name; and, for consistency’s sake, a cool indie webzine of, you guessed it, the same name. …

Aussie art-poppers carry on their second life . . .

Another look at Minus 5's Down With Wilco.

Elvis Costello is very deservedly going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next Monday. Jon Friedman has an interesting profile in CBS MarketWatch: What separates Costello, who records for Vivendi Universal labels, from the pack is that he has endured so admirably. He has had a real career, …

The Cure have signed a three-record deal with Artist Direct: Ross Robinson had the fever; now he’s got The Cure. Known for his production wizardry on projects with KoRn, Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Sepultura, At The Drive-In, and the red-hot punksters The Blood Brothers, Robinson fulfills a lifelong ambition to work …

More songs about guitars and gurls: been playing a lot of recent discs from the current crop of pop-‘n’-roll bands, so let’s weigh in on three of ’em. Geezers of the batch have to be Supergrass – now on their third release, Life on Other Planets (Island), an altogether solid …

Our picks for the Best New Artist of 2002: 1) Norah Jones 2) Avril Lavigne 3) The Streets 4) Interpol 5) Josh Groban