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This week's reviews: Mouse, Joss, Rich, Elliott and more (USA Today)
The pace of significant releases is picking up. Here's what our critics reviewed this week: Modest Mouse is better when the band errs on the immodest side, Edna Gundersen feels. Joss Stone's emancipation isn't quite all it's been hyped up...
G. Love puts squeeze on guest stars to make Lemonade (Houston Chronicle)
Best known for his diverse mix of hip-hop, rock, blues and everything in between, G. Love realized more of his dreams since downsizing.
Media Consumption: Deep Fried Entertainment's Steve Tolin (Gamasutra)
For this week's Media Consumption, a column that looks at the media and art diets of our favourite industry personalities, we spoke to Steve Tolin, engineering lead at Canadian developer Deep Fried Entertainment on the company's PSP title Full Auto 2: Battlelines. The title, which launches in the US today and in Europe at the end of the month, is a sequel to Sega's Xbox 360 vehicular combat ...
G. Love flourishes on smaller label (AP via Yahoo! News)
For many musicians, getting a major label contract is the dream of a lifetime. But G. Love, best known for his diverse mix of hip-hop, rock, blues and everything in between, has realized more of his dreams since downsizing from the big-time corporate music machine to a smaller label.
REGIONAL CONCERTS (The Wichita Eagle)
CENTURY II, 225 W. Douglas. Tickets available at www.wichitatix.com, (316) 219-4TIX, or Select-A-Seat outlets, 755-SEAT. The Pink Floyd Experience, live Pink Floyd tribute band and light show, 8 p.m. April 19, Convention Hall. Tickets $33-$35.50.
YEAH YEAH YEAH (Anchorage Press)
Bringing back memories of the warm smell from an ?Easy-Bake Oven,? Cake is prepping a new CD that features ?scratch and sniff? fun in the disc's limited edition.
POP BEAT (San Francisco Chronicle)
Please join me in wishing a happy birthday to the Hotel Utah Saloon, which celebrates its 30th anniversary Friday and Saturday with two shows featuring the Culver City Dub Collective, a collaboration between Jack Johnson's drummer, Adam Topol, and guitarist...
Johnsburg grad Smith one in a million (Northwest Herald)
As the youngest child in her family, Amy Smith desperately wanted to be a big sister. ?Amy had been begging me for a sister,? said her mother, Jeanne.
REGIONAL CONCERTS (The Wichita Eagle)
CENTURY II, 225 W. Douglas. Tickets available at www.wichitatix.com, (316) 219-4TIX, or Select-A-Seat outlets, 755-SEAT. The Pink Floyd Experience, light show set to Pink Floyd music, 8 p.m. April 19, Convention Hall. Tickets $33-$35.50.
Good Charlotte looks to rebound (The Record)
Joel Madden says that "we wanted to kind of reinvent Good Charlotte a little bit" on the band's fourth album, "Good Morning Revival." Of course, some might say that goes against the ain't broke/don't fix it rule.