The tastemakers of the Internet era can make a band overnight, as Long Beach,
Calif.-based Cold War Kids learned in 2006, when the online chatter surrounding
a
It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly 20 years since the 1996 release of
LeAnn Rimes’ debut album, Blue. That
record’s title track established Rimes, at the tender age of 13, as the heir
apparent to the legacy of country superstar
What better anthem for Summerfest than Nelly’s “Hot in Herre,” from the
rapper’s 2002 breakthrough album Nellyville?
Throughout his 20-year career, Nelly has perfected the art of the party anthem,
crafting odes to the joys
Any comprehensive history of modern indie-rock must at least
reference Jimmy Eat World. Formed in Mesa, Ariz., in 1993, the band quickly
encountered an underground music scene still inspired by the “harder, faster,
louder” mantra
“Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at
yourself.”
This indictment of homegrown schadenfreude appears early in the pages of Charlie LeDuff’s
compelling
For
the past five years, the off-kilter sound of Milwaukee-based John the Savage
has been a constant in a scene often wracked by dramatic turnover. While the
band was never exactly prolific, they did manage to record
There
are some records that have distinct seasonal feels. Slint’s Spiderland is reminiscent of an ominous
fall evening, while Hüsker Dü’s New Day
Rising sounds like a red-hot summer day. Closer to home, Startled