Articles by Clinton Hallahan

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  Purple Hill

  Bring on the Macho

  PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2011

  "Glorified bar band" stopped being pejorative as the Hold Steady started ruling playlists in the middle of the decade. Purple Hill look to...

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  Memphis

  Here Comes A City

  PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2011

  While his main project, for better or worse, settles into a template, Torquil Campbell (of Stars fame) has secretly been saving his most cr...

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  Easter Island

  Better Things

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2011

  Like any good liberal island deep in a red state ― like Lexington, KY and Austin, TX ― a centrepiece university is a good way t...

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  King Creosote

  Thrawn

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2011

  Kenny Anderson scoffs at your idea of prolific. Counting over 40 releases over his career as King Creosote, the Scottish singer-songwriter...

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  The Liptonians

  Let's All March Back Into The Sea

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2011

  A collection of lurching folk-pop (folk as in "enduring," not finger-picking) like Let's All March Back Into The Sea is hard to sustain. Lu...

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  Campfire OK

  Strange Like We Are

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2011

  Banjo is becoming rock shorthand for credibility. That's not to say it isn't a noble instrument, but many a band these days (I'm looking at...

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  Grouplove

  Grouplove

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2011

  Indie rock has reached roughly the same place as sludgy post-punk after Dinosaur Jr.'s Without A Sound, in that it now needs to ask itself:...

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  Corinne Bailey Rae

  The Love

  PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2011

  Corinne Bailey Rae has taken some time off from her busy schedule of collecting awards and nominations across the Atlantic to bring us an E...