Friday, March 15, 2002
Splendid ambles around SXSW: "Josh Rouse proved surprisingly likeable; while none of us felt the need to go out and buy Under Cold Blue Stars, neither did we have any inclination to pull Rouse and his band off the stage and beat them to death."
"Their sound did occasionally teeter between diaphanous and insubstantial, while their sometimes overly laid-back stagecraft could do with tightening up. There's no questioning, though, that, as regards songwriting and collective persona, the Tanyas are the real deal." The Independent understands ...
"A more bubblegum Grant Lee Buffalo without half the pretensions." A member of the band Stephen Malkmus put together for his recent solo adventure, John Moen now gets behind his own group's new release. The Maroons ' You're gonna ruin everything can be sampled here...
Slack pop-rock from LA's Phantom Planet , Borderline April 10...
posted by SMc at 10:47 AM
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