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2008 Stories by Mikael Wood

• GET PUNK’D

  published July 16, 2008

  The annual skate-punk road show known as the Vans Warped Tour has broadened its horizons the past few summers to include lots of acts who... More >>

• The Veronicas' Hook Me Up

  published June 24, 2008

  Hook Me Up to a Computer might be a more accurate title for the second full-length from this Australian twin-sister act, which took its... More >>

• Crazy Rhythms

  published June 24, 2008

  Understated indie-pop legends The Feelies are making their high-profile return to active duty (after a decade and a half of dormancy) with a free... More >>

• Back to Guyville

  published June 17, 2008

  Never mind the protestation of the indie nation: Guyville’s premier provocateur, Liz... More >>

• Death Becomes Them

  published June 3, 2008

  So what if their stiffest competition was Jason Mraz and repackaged Frank Sinatra: Death Cab for Cutie’s debut atop the Billboard... More >>

• Spiritualized's Songs in A&E

  published May 27, 2008

  Spiritualized mastermind Jason Pierce says he'd already written the material on Songs in A&E when he was hospitalized in 2005 with a... More >>

• Boy Soldiers

  published May 27, 2008

  Unlike the White Stripes, who have been refining their blues-punk blasts for the past six or seven years, the Raconteurs (with frontmen Jack White... More >>

• Al Green Samples Some New Producers

  published May 13, 2008

  Al Green's biggest hit is called "Let's Stay Together," but for his latest long-player, the famed Memphis soul singer declined to take his own... More >>

• TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL?

  published May 13, 2008

  If the indie-rock blogosphere has done anything, it’s created a nation of young people chomping at the bit to demonstrate their mastery over... More >>

• Colin Meloy Sings Live!

  published April 29, 2008

  Is there a more loyal bunch of indie-rock fans than those devoted to the Decemberists? Throughout the course of his new live solo album, Colin... More >>

• BANG YOUR HEAD

  published April 15, 2008

  Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine says he founded Gigantour—his three-year-old Ozzfest competitor—to remedy what he perceives as... More >>

• DARLING DUO

  published April 15, 2008

  Indie-film girl Zooey Deschanel and indie-rock guy M. Ward met while recording a duet of Richard and Linda Thompson’s “When I Get to the... More >>

• MUTE EMOTION

  published April 1, 2008

  There’s no doubt that Austin’s Explosions in the Sky play music that we in the rock-critical complex like to call... More >>

• STONED DIGRESSIONS

  published March 25, 2008

  On Real Emotional Trash, the fourth solo-with-a-band album he’s made since Pavement turned to dust, Stephen Malkmus spends more... More >>

• Dolly Parton's Backwoods Barbie

  published March 4, 2008

  Dolly Parton's people are billing this as the singer/actress's return to "mainstream country" following a three-album wander in the... More >>

• PARK IT HERE

  published March 4, 2008

  Precisely styled garage-rock combos The Hives and The Donnas—the first from Sweden, the second from California—don’t... More >>

• MODERN VINTAGE

  published February 26, 2008

  Though they started out at a pretty monumental disadvantage in the shape of Jonathan Fire*Eater’s biz-hype suicide, The Walkmen have,... More >>

• A FINE ROMANCE

  published February 26, 2008

  Dean & Britta are Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, known to each other as husband and wife—and to the rest of the world as half of... More >>

• Punch Brothers' Punch

  published February 19, 2008

  The primary Punch Brother is local mandolin whiz Chris Thile, who until last year fronted Nickel Creek, the closest thing the bluegrass scene... More >>