LOCALS ONLY With Westword’s Music Showcase going down this weekend, let’s take a quick look at what the last five hip-hop winners have been up to the last five years: The Pirate Signal (Yonnas and DJ A-What) who won in 2007, has just released its new mixtape The PS Pt…
All right, hands up: Who’s eagerly awaiting the Olympics this August? [cue crickets] Yep. That’s about what we figured. For the non-sportos — and we’re figuring that’s you, otherwise, you’d be reading the Sports Guy or The Life of Reily right now — the Olympics are about as riveting as…
Photo by Laurie Scavo CAT-A-TAC NOMINATED IN INDIE ROCK Performing 6:30-7 PM BAR STANDARD Personnel: Andy Tennant; Jim McTurnan; Connor Bailey; Warren Wonders Discography: Past Lies and Former Lives (2007); Cat-A-Tac (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
TITO DEL BARRIO MALAGA NOMINATED IN WORLD Performing 7:15-7:45 DAZZLE PERSONNEL: Samir El Yesfi; Djordje Vasovic; Kenny Villanueva; M’hammed El Mendra; Zay A. Rios; Ryan Mullin; Steven Contreras Discography: N/A Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
Several film directors have used actors as their alter egos: François Truffaut had Jean-Pierre Léaud, Federico Fellini had Marcello Mastroianni, and John Hughes had Michael Anthony Hall. When I was in high school, I had no idea who those European directors were — but Hughes made a big impact. The…
Flobots were on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week. And Last Call With Carson Daly before that. Yeah, I know — old news now, right? But five years ago, when I first started writing about local music for this paper, such an event wouldn’t have been treated like…
Once upon a time (the 1990s) in a land far, far away (Glen Ridge, New Jersey), a pair of elementary-schoolers named Wes Miles and Ezra Koenig played their first song together. For Miles, the experience proved to be a formative one. “I guess my plan ever since me and Ezra…
Die-hard Radiohead enthusiast Michael Garafalo of Denver was the first person in the world to have elective plastic surgery to make his eye look like Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke’s. Steve Muldue is sitting in the waiting room of Dr. Cynthia Mason’s plastic surgery clinic in Denver, Colorado, tapping his foot…
NO PLOT KILL NOMINATED IN PUNK Performing 3:30-4 PM 1144 BROADWAY Personnel: David Bartz; David Schmidtline; Ray Hammer Discography: Evil Prevails When Good Men Fail to Act (2007) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
Photo by John Halpern REED FOEHL NOMINATED IN SINGER-SONGWRITER Performing 4:15-4:45 PM DAZZLE Personnel: Reed Foehl Discography: Stoned Beautiful (2007); Spark (2004) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
NO FAIR FIGHTS NOMINATED IN METAL/ HARD ROCK Performing 5:45-6:15 PM 1144 BROADWAY Personnel: Justin Ray; Collin Sanford; Brian Chambliss; Patrick O’Fallon Discography: No Fair Fights (EP) (2006) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
VICES I ADMIRE NOMINATED IN MODERN ROCK Performing 2:45-3:15 PM ANDREW’S ON LINCOLN Personnel: Mickey Dollar; Dave Curtis; Mark Towne Discography: Plan B. (EP) (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
WHYGEE NOMINATED IN HIP-HOP-MC Personnel: Whygee Discography: N/A Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
THE INFORMANTS NOMINATED IN BLUES Personnel: Kerry Pastine; Mac McMurray; Mark Richardson; Paul Christophersen; Paul Shellooe; Kenny Plum; Jonny Love Discography: Stiletto Angel (2007) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
IUENGLISS NOMINATED IN AMBIENT/ ELECTRO Personnel: Tom Metz; contributors Discography: Sammy’s Wildest Dreams EP (2008); Wake-Up Time (2007) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
(DIE) PILOT NOMINATED IN INDIE ROCK Performing 4:15-4:45 PM SUTRA Personnel: Eugene Brown; Paul Jansen; Jeremiah Jones; Chris Durant; Dan Sullivan Discography: Mutiny (2008); Radiation, Weather, Art (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
US PIPE NOMINATED IN FUNK Personnel: Chris Sauthoff; Kurt Rosenbecker; Chris Murphy; Mike Chiesa; Scott Osborne; Missy Gutreuter; Azma Holiday Discography: United Sound Pipe due out later this summer (2008); Party With the Pipe (2007); Pipe Dreams (EP) (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
UMCONSCIOUS NOMINATED IN HIP-HOP GROUP Performing 8-8:30 PM at DC-10 Personnel: Johnny L; Boogie B; DJ AJ; Sibs Discography: The Avenue (EP) (2007) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
NATHANIEL RATELIFF (THE WHEEL) NOMINATED IN FOLK/ACOUSTIC Performing 2:45-3:15 at SUTRA Personnel: Nathaniel Rateliff Discography: Desire and Dissolving Men (2008) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
TIM POURBAIX NOMINATED IN SINGER-SONGWRITER Performing 2-2:30 PM at MILK BAR Personnel: Tim Pourbaix; Andrew Solanyk; Peter Glenn Discography: A Pony Craig, Not Greg (2007) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
THE AUTUMN FILM NOMINATED IN POP Performing 3:30-4:00 PM at MILK BAR (SOLO SET FROM TIFAH) Personnel: Tifah-Al-Attas; Reid Phillips; Aubrea Alford; Dann Stockton Discography: Safe and Sound (2007); Tifah (EP) (2005) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
SET FORTH NOMINATED IN POP Performing 5-5:30 PM at LA RUMBA Personnel: Steve Melton; Ryan Buller; Jeff Bostic; Marc Teets Discography: Set Forth (EP) (2008) Download or stream the entire track after the jump…
