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...mindlessly enjoying an escapist bit of entertainment; instead, the editing smacked of the cold-war tales of Soviet bureaucrats erasing their out-of-favor predecessors from group photos. The public is tough enough to handle the past. A far braver decision was made by New York City-based alt-country singer-songwriter Ryan Adams. His rollicking new song "New York, New York" has as its refrain the words "But I still love you, New York"; it was written before the tragedy and the video for the song was made a few days before the attack. It shows Adams, guitar...
...subtle twang of the banjo is linked inextricably to the idea of Wilco. To be sure, the banjo isn’t featured on all of Wilco’s tracks, but it remains their most distinctive feature, and the cornerstone of their unique no-depression, “alt-country” timbre. And when multi-instrumentalist/technician Jay Bennet (i.e. the banjo guy) left Wilco earlier this year, so too did the all-defining Wilco gimmick. Bennet left behind a deflated effigy of a band, an artifact which in its present incarnation is almost unrecognizable (save Jeff Tweedy?...
Aterciopelados COLOMBIA Singer Andrea Echeverri and guitarist/producer Hector Buitrago blend alt-rock, electronica and Colombian folk. Key albums: Gozo Poderoso, Caribe Atomico...
Ryan Adams is a little bit country, and he's a little bit rock 'n' roll. Don't confuse him with Canadian pop-rocker Bryan (Cuts Like a Knife) Adams--the two are no relation, by blood or by music. Ryan, 26, the former lead singer for the alt-country band Whiskeytown, writes songs that have the passion of youth and a melancholy that one might think would be beyond his years. Sometimes he sounds like the old Bruce Springsteen; other times he sounds like a new Hank Williams. Adams' last album, Heartbreaker (2000), was released on a small label...
...moment alt rock first hit the big time is a decade passed, and the Nevermind box set debacle appears destined to overshadow any public discussion of its anniversary. "Our Band Could Be Your Life" offers a timely reminder that Cobain and company were merely a key regiment in the motley alt-rock army. With no beacon of commercial viability in sight, that far-flung herd of musicians, label heads, college radio DJs and `zine writers slowly but steadily introduced a new kind of rock `n' roll to people who, in Azerrad's words, "would seek out the little radio stations...