Jets to Brazil, 'Perfecting Loneliness' (Jade Tree) ; The Get Up Kids, 'On a Wire' (Vagrant)
By Andrew Beaujon 07.21.03 3:00 AM
Oh-oh, growing up. Jets to Brazil's Blake Schwarzenbach was the auteur of '90s San Francisco emo progenitors Jawbreaker, a Mission District Morrissey for a generation of sensitive kids who idolized his slow-motion ruminations on dating, sex, and love.
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Between Punk and Porky's
Oklahoma rockers the All-American Rejects have gone from playing
all-ages punk shows to hitting it big on MTV and hanging out with
models. Here’s what happens when emo goes on spring break
By Andrew Beaujon; Spin Staff 07.15.03 3:00 AM
Oklahoma rockers the All-American Rejects have gone from playing
all-ages punk shows to hitting it big on MTV and hanging out with
models. Here’s what happens when emo goes on spring break
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The Real Slim Ladies
The white female rapper/singer has arrived. Meet the new crop of
"Feminems"
By Andrew Beaujon; Spin Staff 07.10.03 3:00 AM
The white female rapper/singer has arrived. Meet the new crop of
"Feminems"
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Hootie and the Blowfish, 'Hootie and the Blowfish' (Atlantic) ; Ben Harper, 'Diamonds on the Inside' (Virgin)
It's not your father's dad rock -- oh, wait, yes it is.
By Andrew Beaujon 07.01.03 3:00 AM
In 2001, singer Darius "Don't Call Me Hootie" Rucker went to the moon. Leaving the echt dad-rock of his once-multiplatinum Blowfish behind, he recorded an R&B solo album called The Return of Mongo Slade, which was eventually de-weirded and released on an indie label with the far-less-advanced title Back to Then.
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Mars Volta, 'De-Loused in the Comatorium' (Strummer/Universal)
Robotic Afro-prog!
By Andrew Beaujon 06.26.03 3:00 AM
At the Drive-In are dead. And while neither of their splinter groups--Sparta and the Mars Volta--are exactly dancing on the corpse's ashes, the Mars Volta are trying their best to make the funeral funky. But they're not doing it by writing anything that resembles a traditional groove or by enlisting Flea to play bass--though, yes, that happened, and yes, it helps. No, the funkiness of Messrs.
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Dischord Records: Out of Step with the World
After 20-plus years of producing perhaps the finest underground
rock catalogue in America, Ian MacKaye and his Washington
D.C.-based Dischord Records are, well, still saying no--no to
rootless commercialism, no to cheap nostalgia, no to doing music
business as usual. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Green Bay Packers
of punk
By Andrew Beaujon; Spin Staff 06.13.03 3:00 AM
After 20-plus years of producing perhaps the finest underground
rock catalogue in America, Ian MacKaye and his Washington
D.C.-based Dischord Records are, well, still saying no--no to
rootless commercialism, no to cheap nostalgia, no to doing music
business as usual. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Green Bay Packers
of punk
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