POSTED // Aug 22,2007 - Jason Molina is calling from the United Kingdom, not Ohio, because things change. Just as his first noteworthy band Songs: Ohia eventually became Magnolia Electric Co., his place of residence, too, has changed. Transience, you see, is his thing. By any...

POSTED // Aug 20,2007 - Apart from a guy in a clown costume and the tall, husky guy with the even huskier ’fro, you can’t tell the comedians from the crowd at Wiseguys open-mic night. Among the four-dozen people gathered in the West Valley comedy club, all look like...

POSTED // Aug 8,2007 - You heard it hear first: Mark Mallman is the Mallwolf. He also screens his calls because, apparently, there is a Beckinsale-esque young lady packing a snub-nosed .38 loaded with garlic-tipped silver bullets lurking in the fog. Or just a superfan—but...

POSTED // Jul 18,2007 - I’m holding on, baby,” says Bettye LaVette, the Great Lady of Soul, relaxing at her home in Detroit. She’s not just giving a casual, keep-on-keepin’-on reply; for some 45 years, LaVette has kept singing even when nobody seemed...

POSTED // Jul 6,2007 - If Boston-based roots-rocker Sarah Borges ever gets sick of touring, she has a bright future in marketing. Told that City Weekly heard her album while hostage in a huge Interstate-215 traffic jam, she says, “It’s too bad we couldn’t...

POSTED // Jun 22,2007 - Alongside “riffage” and “ax,” there is only one cheesier word in the guitar-player lexicon: “shred.” Shredders are the computer geeks of guitar, the type of players who hold speed and technicality at a premium and can’t...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Comedy metal: It’s an unsung genre, the medium of metalheads who somehow lack the extra Y-chromosome essential to the loudest of rocks. Although this taxon lacks nothing in volume, and at least sounds aggressive, it’s truly the noise of smart...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - First, Elbo Finn wasn’t happy with Salt Lake City, so they went to Portland. Now City Weekly has reached singer-guitarist Jayson Gates in … Pohemia? “Pohemia is what I call North Portland,” he explains. “It’s one of the...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Fisch’s condo is as clean as his shaved pate. His keyboard is tucked under a dust cover; his turntables are pristine in their plastic cases. Slack shows only on the two shelves of fuzzy-spined vinyl LPs that don’t slouch so much as lean flush...

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Although named for an endless, vacuous, constantly sucking nothing, Blackhole and their self-titled debut CD suck not. Like all reliable scientific data, this conclusion is based on analysis conducted over a 41-hour period where the local foursome’s...