Results for M. Ward

  • Folk Rock Ensemble Port O'Brien Changes Course

    by Andres JaureguiJune 18, 2008Comments (0)

    Seldom, if ever, was there a band that could evoke the seafaring muse and back it up with real life experience. Port O'Brien, an Oakland, CA-based folk rock ensemble, is tied lyrically and thematically to the remote fishing community in Alaska where frontman Van Pierszalowski has spent his summers since boyhood. But as the band receives increasing acclaim, their relationship with the seas (read more)

  • Your Handy Guide to the Month in Music

    by Mike ConklinApril 2, 2008Comments (1)

    It's been a pretty weird month for the music industry. Artists sued record labels, bands continued to release records in unusual new ways, giant soft-drink companies taunted dinosaur rock acts, one of the world's biggest bands signed a revolutionary new contract (read more)

  • She & Him

    by Howard WymanMarch 19, 2008Comments (0)

    "it’s really Zooey’s show" (read more)

  • Saddle Creek Slowdown

    by Brenda ParoMarch 19, 2008Comments (6)

    When it comes to indie rock, there’s just something about the Midwest. Not better or worse than other places, but irrefutably different: The fact is that a four-track recording never sounds quite as visceral as when it’s being created in a suburban basement in the middle of nowhere. (read more)

  • White Hinterland

    by David MacFadden-ElliottMarch 12, 2008Comments (0)

    "Great tonal developments and chord work appears" (read more)