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2008 Stories by Ryan Wasoba

• Less Than Jake/Goldfinger

  published July 2, 2008

  A decade ago, a co-headlining tour by Goldfinger and Less Than Jake seemed unlikely, especially because the two bands seemed to... More >>

• Wolf Eyes

  published June 25, 2008

  It takes a North American timber wolf approximately seven minutes to track, catch and fully dismember an adult deer. Detroit noise band Wolf... More >>

• Warped Tour darlings Cobra Starship discusses side projects and fanny packs, while the hidden history of Green Jellÿ is revealed

  published June 25, 2008

  Cobra Starship combines '80s new wave influences and funky fashion with quirky dance moves and plenty of irony. Formed in 2005 by former Midtown... More >>

• Modey Lemon

  published June 18, 2008

  Tie-dye, pot leaves and magical mushrooms are the standard fare for drug-rock imagery, but Pittsburgh's psychedelic trio Modey Lemon... More >>

• Forever Changes: Chick Corea's Return To Forever reunites and shows neo-jazz fusion groups how it's done

  published June 11, 2008

  Anyone seeking a definition of "jazz fusion" needs to look no further than Return To Forever. The seminal group, which is fronted by... More >>

• The Casualties

  published June 11, 2008

  More nostalgic than innovative, the Casualties are almost a tribute band to an aesthetic, following the punk-rock rules by the book... More >>

• Be Your Own Pet

  published June 4, 2008

  At a time when punk rock is pretty, polished and poppy, Be Your Own Pet is breaking down the walls like a leather-jacket-wearing,... More >>

• Stone Temple Pilots

  published June 4, 2008

  We were almost safe from the horrors of the post-grunge alternative muck of the mid- to late-'90s — and then Stone Temple Pilots... More >>

• Russian Circles

  published May 28, 2008

  Russian Circles is a post-rock, post-metal, post-everything instrumental band from Chicago that may be redefining the term "power trio."... More >>

• Dark Meat

  published May 14, 2008

  Dark Meat (short for Dark Meat Vomit Lasers Family Galaxy) epitomizes two trademarks of the Athens, Georgia, music scene: a family-like... More >>

• MU330

  published May 7, 2008

  If the third wave of ska is over, either nobody told MU330, or it simply doesn't care. The latter option must be true; in the fourteen... More >>

• Tegan and Sara find their sister act soaring with The Con

  published April 30, 2008

  Tegan and Sara Quin are identical twins who have been playing music and writing songs together inseparably for over a decade as (naturally)... More >>

• Bad Dudes

  published April 30, 2008

  Between its charmingly straightforward name and highly literal lyrics, Bad Dudes aren't leaving much to the imagination. On "Eat Drugs,"... More >>

• Van Halen

  published April 23, 2008

  The name Van Halen is synonymous with rock & roll dramatics. After all, the band has always given its fans many topics to discuss over a... More >>

• B-Sides gets personal with Alicia Keys, as she is, and examines the parallels between Metallica-worshippers Apocalyptica and Harptallica

  published April 23, 2008

  She sings. She acts. She saves the world, or tries to, through her various charity efforts. And even Bob Dylan has noticed, and namechecked her... More >>

• Enon

  published April 16, 2008

  For ten years, Enon has been stirring a cauldron of electro-clash sonics, sassy vocals and garage-rock spunk. With last year's Touch and... More >>

• Rogue Wave

  published April 16, 2008

  Geographically, Rogue Wave resides in Oakland, but musically, the band comes from the same sunny indie-pop hills as the Shins and Built... More >>

• Unwed Sailor

  published April 9, 2008

  Unwed Sailor is a fitting name for a band that's geographically restless enough to have called Seattle, Chicago, Washington D.C.,... More >>

• B-Sides catches up with Lou ex-pat Black Spade and finds out how Black Moutain manages to rock so hard

  published March 19, 2008

  Some may use prefixes such as "progressive" or "stoner" to describe the music unleashed by Black Mountain. But the Vancouver quintet is, above... More >>

• An Albatross

  published March 12, 2008

  Given that the average An Albatross track clocks in at a minute or less, "progressive" may seem like an odd tag for the band. But these... More >>

• Pelican

  published February 27, 2008

  On paper, Chicago's Pelican is doing everything wrong. The instrumental group plays heavy riffs with clean guitars. It does doom metal... More >>

• HEALTH

  published February 13, 2008

  There's a move that noise kids make at noise shows: With their heads down, feet shoulder-width apart and unmoving, they uncross their arms and... More >>

• Early Day Miners

  published February 6, 2008

  American music and American geography have always gone hand in hand. But while many bands can recall Southern attitude or New York cool, very... More >>

• Sound Tribe Sector 9

  published January 30, 2008

  As Sound Tribe Sector 9 performs one of its packed shows, it's easy to imagine the jam band kids staying on one side of the club and the... More >>

• Cobra Starship

  published January 30, 2008

  Initial impulses suggest that pop-punk supergroup Cobra Starship started as a joke. The first indicator is the NYC band's name; second... More >>