Music

Built for music from the ground up. That's not the new tagline for the U2-edition iPod, the new Bose stereo or the Electric Factory.
November 4, 2004 at 12:00 am

Jim Newell The Futureheads The Futureheads Poser bands are everywhere now. For a while, I tried to give these wannabes the cold shoulder, but there came a time when avoiding them was no longer an option.
October 28, 2004 at 12:00 am

There are two qualities every determined writer should have: confidence and sheer ingenuity. Enter journalist, CNN correspondent and fiction author Toure.
October 28, 2004 at 12:00 am

Close your eyes and think of the words "Canadian music." Suddenly, images of Bryan Adams singing that Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves song and Celine Dion running down the hall of a castle to the tune of "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" appear, right? Unfortunately for the average music fan, the words "Canadian music" are forever linked with the year 1995.
October 14, 2004 at 12:00 am

For TV on the Radio, video did not kill the radio star. Somehow they managed to fuse the two together.
October 14, 2004 at 12:00 am

Let's say you happened to have five guys that look like they belong in different bands. Hand them some instruments, let them roam free with their ideas and allow for some serious harmonizing.
October 7, 2004 at 12:00 am

Kali Backer Pavement Wowee Zowee Before I found my chi in the realm of independent music, I was your typical DMB fan.
October 7, 2004 at 12:00 am

Street takes a glance at some of the best songs of the season. There is no reason to be sad in the fall.
September 30, 2004 at 12:00 am

Jim Newell Brian Eno Another Green World Brian Eno is essential, and Another Green World is his masterpiece.
September 30, 2004 at 12:00 am

What does jazz really mean to people? For the average college student, jazz is the music we all know we should dig but can't quite get our heads around.
September 23, 2004 at 12:00 am

Jim Newell Jeff Mangum Live at Jittery Joe's In 1998, Neutral Milk Hotel released, in my opinion, the defining album of the '90s, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. The band's only release our lonely ears have heard since is Jittery Joe's, recorded live by their enigmatic leader, Jeff Mangum, in 1997, and released in 2001.
September 23, 2004 at 12:00 am

"I don't hate you at all, really." Phew! Jason Isbell, guitarist and vocalist of the Drive-By Truckers has just reassured Street that Northern upbringings do not, after all, provoke hate in him.
September 16, 2004 at 12:00 am

Jim Newell Bjork Medulla Bjork is one of the few artists I feel perfectly comfortable sacrificing my masculinity to promote.
September 16, 2004 at 12:00 am

Badly Drawn Boy One Plus One is One Damon Gough, better known as Badly Drawn Boy, doesn't seem to know what he wants to be.
July 29, 2004 at 12:00 am

Charlotte Martin recently finished driving across the country. She also managed to squeeze in a little singing along the way, since the drive was for a spring concert tour.
July 22, 2004 at 12:00 am

24 smiling white-robed musicians belting sunny verses and playing instruments like guitars and French horns.
July 22, 2004 at 12:00 am

Tyrannosaurus Hives is misleading after an inital spin. Compared to the garage band's second album, 2000's Veni Vidi Vicious, this album is cold and slick, very different from the raw Vicious, which had a basic live sound.
July 22, 2004 at 12:00 am

The Roots know they're on the cusp of entering the upper echelon of rap popularity. Forever championed by critics and underground hip-hop fans, the group has scored hits on their past two albums: "You Got Me" from 1999's Things Fall Apart and "The Seed (2.0)" from 2002's Phrenology. The Tipping Point means many things to the band, including that this album may very well decide if this band is accepted by the general hip-hop populace, or left to be appreciated by those who look hard enough for good hip-hop. Thus, it's rather ballsy that The Tipping Point's first single is "Don't Say Nuthin'," a track in which lead emcee Black Thought rips the bland hip-hop community that isn't saying anything.
July 15, 2004 at 12:00 am

The titles on Together We're Heavy, the second album from The Polyphonic Spree, are numbered from 11 to 20, continuing from the first ten sections of the band's debut, The Beginning Stages of... Despite the titling, however, things couldn't be more different on this sophomore effort. The Spree's debut was originally recorded as a demo, and didn't feature many of the current 21 group members.
July 15, 2004 at 12:00 am

There is one piece of advice that Dave Bielanko -- lead singer of Marah -- has for people who bash his band: "Whatever you wanna do is good with us.
July 1, 2004 at 12:00 am