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Saturday band sampler (Austin American-Statesman)
AM. AM is a guy, not a band, which means he doesn't have to split up the royalties from all those TV placements.
Thursday band sampler (Austin American-Statesman)
Apollo Sunshine. That sordid Berklee College of Music background asserts itself in both outlandish chops and intricate studio arrangements, but the band's short attention span and myriad influences ? from Charles Mingus to Outkast to Ray Charles ? keep things from settling into the overly cerebral.
The Stooges (Isthmus)
With the exception of Ron Asheton, the Stooges are unwilling to attack the new material with abandon. And for a band that amassed a huge cult following precisely because it often sounded like everyone was teetering on the edge of chaos, that?s a big problem.
That Winehouse buzz? Believe it (The Wichita Eagle)
(Republic) Some singers have whiskey-soaked voices. Amy Winehouse has a whiskey-soaked oeuvre. "They tried to make me go to rehab/ I said, 'No, no, no,' " the British soulstress sings at the outset of her marvelous new album, "Back to Black."
Album a little less Low with upbeats (Fargo Forum)
DULUTH, Minn. ? Low?s new album has a dance song. There was a time when that was unimaginable for a trio that, over more than a decade and a half-dozen albums, built cult adoration for its chilly exercises in slow-motion rock.
Modest Mouse (Seattle Weekly)
Modest Mouse are a wonderfully wonky band. I've always likened them to an untamed animal. But musically, they are more akin to a bag full of instruments; turn them upside down and shake them just a little, and the whole mess will crash to the floor.
Stooges haven't aged very well (Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
With spastic singer Iggy Pop at the helm, The Stooges tore through the late '60s and early '70s, ending a three-album reign of brilliantly primal proto-punk with 1973's iconic "Raw Power."
Still 'Stooges' (Kansas City Star)
| THE STOOGES ?The Weirdness? (Virgin) ??? | The Stooges may be widely hailed as avatars and progenitors of punk, but a discriminating listen to their three seminal, and distinct, albums shows that they were a lot more than a schematic for the Sex Pistols. Their records mixed adrenalized guitar rock with raga, jazz skronk and Detroit funk. The Stooges combined the Neanderthal and the avant garde ...
Stooges, off 34 years, become punk legends (The Press-Enterprise)
The Stooges once made groundbreaking, life-altering music, and they paid dearly for it. Now more than three decades after they came and went, the Stooges have returned, acknowledged as legends and basking in unprecedented respect, adulation and cash.
Polyphonic Spree Leave Hollywood For TeeVee Tunes (IGN Music)
Glee tinged musical outfit finds home at new label. March 12, 2007 - Dallas based symphonic rock outfit The Polyphonic Spree have inked a new record deal.