Category: FEATURES

Ween: A Band Of Superbad Brothers

Great bands don’t form via drummer-wanted ads or happenstance encounters at the local guitar shop. Instead, they come together in

September 19, 2007 / FEATURES

Battles: Life During Wartime

Pretension, prog and the politics of dancing. Forward-thinking New York quartet Battles overcomes all obstacles to deliver 21st-century fight songs.

September 17, 2007 / FEATURES

Bottom Of The Hudson: Muddy Waters

Eli Simon, leader of Philadelphia-based Bottom Of The Hudson, claims to be an unrepentant control freak: “The only reason I

September 16, 2007 / FEATURES

The Weakerthans: Fact Sheet

Naming their fourth album Reunion Tour (Epitaph) is a small, self-deprecating jab for the Weakerthans. Though the Winnipeg quartet never

September 7, 2007 / FEATURES

My Morning Jacket: Line Of Duty

Many are called, but few are chosen. After four albums of classic new songs and another summer of onstage heroics, My Morning Jacket has become America’s best live rock ’n’ roll

September 1, 2007 / FEATURES

Mobius Band: Friendly Fire

It’s difficult to imagine Mobius Band’s primary songwriters—multi-instrumentalists/vocalists Peter Sax and Ben Sterling—ever being pissed off about anything. At least

August 30, 2007 / FEATURES

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Animal Collective: The Theory Of Evolution

The members of Animal Collective have always been a mischievous, shape-shifting medium for primal psychedelic pop and weird-science sonics. Can

August 22, 2007 / FEATURES