The members of Pearl Jam break their silence to talk about the changes, challenges, and motivation behind staying together and the making of their latest, Riot Act.
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It’s no secret that pop music is highly disposable. Looking back at the ’80s, many hits held up worse than…
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FABOLOUS Ghetto Fabolous (Desert Storm/Elektra) Twenty-plus years of hip-hop evolution—a steady, sometimes seismic process of natural selection—and at the beginning…
Sylvester was deeply engrossed, fusing two wires together, when there suddenly came a thunderous banging upon the workshop door. Setting…
Wed LIVE MUSIC AGUA VERDE Gypsy swing with Zhaoui, 8-10 p.m. 1303 N.E. Boat St., 206-545-8570. NC ALL AMERICAN Metro…
How the military uses music and sound.
For years, Asian-American rappers have waited on the sidelines. Will Jin break them out?
THE RECORDS Shades in Bed (On the Beach, U.K.) Starry-eyed U.K. power pop resurrected. Power pop is seemingly on the…
EMP’s Family Concert Series gives a new meaning to all-ages shows.
What’s red, white, and sued all over? It’s the White Stripes! Hot off the new-release bonanza of Elephant, Jack and…
Atmosphere reclaim hip-hop’s introspective side—hold the vegetables.
Record companies roll out the Christmas and holiday albums, and the Weekly separates the “Jingle Bells” from the “Batman Smells.”
Trombonist Roswell Rudd soars up from the underground.
Reunion tours are sad. Usually the bands try to justify reuniting because they “still have music to make together” or…
Three-disc set showcases the work of visionary jazz composer Eric von Essen.
The week’s local music calendar.
THE TWILIGHT SINGERS The Twilight Singers Play Blackberry Belle (One Little Indian) As frontman of Cincinnati’s defunct Afghan Whigs, Greg…
