28 May 2002

Label Unleashes '80s Art-Rock Artifact

By Administrator
• This Tuesday the Fuel 2000 label issues Ride Pony Ride, a terrific new anthology documenting The Golden Palominos and the band's 1980s underground avant-funk clique. Built on the rhythm of drummer and bandleader Anton Fier, the group's ever-changing coil featured ace players such as saxophonist John Zorn, guitarists Nicky Skopelitis and Arto Lindsay, and bassists Bill Laswell and Jamaaladeen Tacuma.
21 May 2002

Quad Cities Jazz Fest Builds an All-Star Band

By No Author
With two music events and a clinic for children, the Quad Cities Jazz Festival promises to brighten your Memorial Day weekend with spectacular music from nine stellar acts. The Quad Cities Jazz Fest runs Thursday through Saturday and includes singer Marilyn Maye, saxophonist Kim Park, the Southwest Missouri Jazz Band, trombonist Paul McKee, trumpet player Manny Lopez, pianist Mulgrew Miller, bassist Jim Widner, drummer Jim Ekloff, and guitarist Rick Haydon.
21 May 2002

Flaming Lips Headline Summer Sunshine Tour

By John James
• A newly conceptualized tour package looks to be the place to fly your sunscreen-slathered freak flag this summer if you're lucky enough for it to touch down near you. Dubbing itself the Unlimited Sunshine 2002 tour, this one sounds wonderfully weird and adventurous with headliners The Flaming Lips.
14 May 2002

Boutique Label Brings Back The The

By John James
• Epic Records has announced the debut of a new artist-owned "boutique" label under its umbrella, as well as the catalog restoration of one of the most enigmatic musical entities of the 1980s - Matt Johnson of The The, reintroduced to the world with his new Lazarus Records imprint.
07 May 2002

Bowing Down to the Blues

By Jeff Ignatius
In an age of pristine and perfectly recorded CDs, Ryan Flaherty’s debut album, Dimestore Blues, is the kind of thing that would sound best on crackling vinyl. The did-it-himself collection of 10 songs – seven originals and three covers – has a rough charm that (intentionally or not) recalls the scratchy, popping recordings of the blues masters from many decades ago.
07 May 2002

Hendrix Offers the Dick Cavett Experience

By John James
• In conjunction with VH1's airing of a half-hour documentary on Jimi Hendrix and The Dick Cavett Show, the MCA and Hendrix Experience labels are releasing the complete appearances next week on DVD and VHS. On September 8, 1969, from the studios of ABC-TV, Hendrix made his American network-television debut, well-suited to Cavett's intellectual interview style, speaking of his days as an Army paratrooper and his Woodstock performance of "The Star Spangled Banner.
30 Apr 2002

Scholar Delivers Soulful Spoken Word

By John James
• Is the same old "rant and roll" getting you down, my friend? Is your mind feeling mauled by too many beats per minute? Has talk-radio bravado turned to babble? Turn off, tune out, and select a healthier diet in your food for thought.
23 Apr 2002

Iowa City Blinded by Galactic Supernova

By Tom Swanson
I must preface this by stating that I knew little of Galactic not long ago. I’d heard them recommended during innocent eavesdropping. I’d heard the ravings among the best of the ragtag new-wave wannabe hippies. I’d even heard some cuts off of one of the band’s albums (don’t ask me which), and I really liked them.
23 Apr 2002

Portishead No Dummy with DVD Release

By John James
• One of the most mesmerizing concerts from the past decade is getting the digital boost to DVD this Tuesday: Portishead's one-night-only session with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra from 1997, simply entitled PNYC Roseland New York.
16 Apr 2002

Local Band Deals with Its Apt Name

By Jeff Ignatius
It’s something that happens to bands of all types, from fictional (Spinal Tap) to big (the unnamed band combining former Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell with the instrumental power of Rage Against the Machine): A major player (Nigel or Cornell) quits at an inopportune time (in the middle of a big tour or before the debut album is even released), leaving everybody in a lurch.

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