Every week, we gather some interesting stuff from our sister Village
Voice Media publications' music sections. Just for kicks. Here's last
week's entry.
Owl City has a song called "Hello Seattle" and Seattle
Weekly likes that fact.
The story behind Sonny Smith's 100 Records, an exhibit of fake album covers, resides in the SF Weekly.
LA Weekly's Chris Martins does a strong bit of investigative reporting in his profile of Dum Dum Girls frontwoman Dee Dee, AKA ex-Grand Ole Party's Kristin Gundred.
Even Erykah Badu gets starstruck during a conversation with the Dallas
Observer:
"That's Horshack!" she screams with glee. "That's ArnoldHorshack! I just saw Arnold Horshack from Welcome Back, Kotter!
Just walking down the road! On Park and 34th!"
In Village Voice, Rob Harvilla's always-mesmerizing
prose regarding Badu's even-more-mesmerizing New Amerykah Part
Two: Return of the Ankh, Rich Juzwiak pulls no punches regarding
Usher's newest release, Raymond v. Raymond:
Perhaps this show-and-no-tell is Usher lying to us tore-energize his career. Perhaps it's something more diabolical, a
smoke-and-mirrors exploitation to dupe those who care too much about his
personal life into buying music that barely mentions it. Either way,
he's too occupied to explain: Raymond mostly explores its hero's status
as a gay divorcé (no homo, as far as we can tell).
Riverfront Times hosts a fun look
back at Tegan and Sara's 1999 hairstyles before digging into the Sainthood
goodies, and a round-up of Cheap Trick's activity during South by
Southwest with a Q&A
with Robin Zander and Rick Neilsen.
