Email Author Elliott Johnston

2009 Stories by Elliott Johnston

• Wayne "The Train" Hancock

  published September 3, 2009

  Of the artists on Chicago-based "insurgent country" label Bloodshot Records—an indie that has nurtured modern Americana faves such... More >>

• Amadou and Mariam Break Out Of World Music

  published July 16, 2009

  The genre title "world music" is a limp, sad stab at unknown sonic terrain. It's just plain bogus that what we generally call pop (stuff made... More >>

• World Music Must Die

  published July 16, 2009

  The genre title "world music" is a limp, sad stab at unknown sonic terrain. It's just plain bogus that what we generally call pop (stuff made... More >>

• Camera Obscura, Anni Rossi

  published June 11, 2009

  Camera Obscura's take on pop music is similar to the one proposed by John Cusack's character in High Fidelity. It's the idea that... More >>

• Little Joy

  published June 4, 2009

  Rock critics are seduced by the tendency to call out an album of the summer—especially during the season's opening bell, when the road... More >>

• Holy Fuck, Crocodiles

  published June 4, 2009

  The Toronto-based Holy Fuck transcends its look-we've-got-"fuck"-in-our-name handle by giving instrumental electro-rock a major kick in... More >>

• Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.Friday, April 24, at Hailey's Club, Denton

  published April 23, 2009

  Japanese collective Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. is probably the trippiest band on the planet. The group—an... More >>

• Building Leonard Cohen's Backing Band

  published April 2, 2009

  For 30 years now, Roscoe Beck has worked with Leonard Cohen. It started when Beck was 24, and his Austin group, Passenger, got a call... More >>

• Robyn Hitchcock

  published April 2, 2009

  It seems either impossible or super-difficult to simultaneously look backward and move forward. But eccentric underground pop legend Robyn... More >>

• Andrew Bird, Haley Bonar

  published March 19, 2009

  Along with eccentric one-of-a-kinds like Sufjan Stevens and Joanna Newsom, Andrew Bird would make a fine professor at some... More >>