Articles by Shain Shapiro
Athlete
Tourist
PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005
Athletes debut, Vehicles and Animals, sold a quarter of a million copies and was nominated for a Mercury Prize in the UK, and now theyve...
Engineers
Engineers
PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005
Engineers are another band that is ostensibly trying to be everything but themselves. Their self-titled debut is overflowing with influence...
John Hermann
Just Ain't Right
PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004
Widespread Panic are one of those bands that are so powerful at carving out their own specific and recognisable sound, despite playing gene...
Particle
Launchpad
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004
Ravers, clubbers and live music purists beware; you are all going to love this record. Particle, a youthful Los Angeles quartet that been o...
Gov't Mule
Deja Voodoo
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004
Govt Mule is an interesting entity within the Southern jam rock realm of the mainstream music industry. Not only has the group endured the...
Widespread Panic
Uber Cobra
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004
Widespread Panic, the venerable kings of the improvisational jam band community south of the Mason-Dixon Line, have embarked upon the popul...
Floating Widget
Praises To the Riff Monolith
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004
Floating Widget, a new outfit hailing from Montreal, have created a record that from start to finish is a tribute to the early days of riff...
Matt Williams
Let's Work It Out
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004
Matt Williams, a Charleston, South Carolina ex-patriot floating around the music scene in Austin, Texas has created an interesting self-fin...