Author Archive
Features
Shapiro’s Road Ahead
He is eight days from home and Carl Shapiro, namesake of DC-based Shapiro, can’t wait to get into his own bed. The 6-foot-2, lion-maned bassist has been sleeping in a 15-passenger van for the past month, on the road with his b...
Interviews
Interview with Shanell
If Lil’ Wayne tells a burgeoning artist to stop giving their songs to other people and start recording them for their own sake, that is advice they would do best to heed. Shanell, aka SNL, can testify as such. First a former ba...
Reviews
The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards (2010)
The Dead Weather follow up the excellent Horehound with an interesting but flawed album that relies more on derived techniques and reverb-heavy production than the ingenious songcraft of its predecessor.
Reviews
Yours Truly – The Colorage (2010)
Twelve seconds into The Colorage, a trumpet caps off the end of an crescendo guitar run, practically announcing the arrival of a talented new alt-rock band from Pittsburgh, PA. And while the five-song EP from Yours Truly isn’t...
