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It’s Hip to Be Square
I love hipsters, I really do. I know I make fun of 'em a lot, saying they're too cool for school, that they're way...
Red Scare
The five guys in Red Monroe think of themselves primarily as a live act — they say that onstage is where their bombastic post-punk...
Jason Boland & the Stragglers
Jason Boland & the Stragglers promote themselves as country outlaws, but if their new c.d. is any indication, they might be in a transition...
The Evangelicals
Any band that opens an album with a minute-long instrumental prelude of squiggling, squealing synth guitar lines — and calls it “Mouthful of Skeletons”...
Packing Gatts, Clocking SAT’s
Nerdcore reached its nadir, to use a geeky term, a few years ago, with the debut c.d. from novelty act MC Hawking. The make-believe...
Coal Fever
In James Michael Taylor’s new album, Slaughter Mountain, the singer-songwriter persuades us to walk a country mile — and then some — in his...
Nina Simone
The very concept is a bit jarring: Take one of the most socially conscious, independent, folk-jazz, whatever-style-she-wanted-to-sing artists from the 1960s. Ask some of...
Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Multitalented artist Will Oldham has kept busy over the past couple of years.
He’s acted in critically acclaimed films, including last year’s Junebug and...
Doug Sahm
Maybe Doug Sahm never became a household name because he wasn’t an easy-to-categorize, one-note musician.
He wandered through blues, R&B, country, Tex-Mex, rock, and,...
Sunday Drive
Sunday Drive’s Needle/Eye has a solid, guitar-based indie rock vibe, but the Dallas band’s third studio album does generic indie one better by being...
