Tuesday, September 29 2009

Bulletproof Within the Music: An Interview with David Gray

By Michael Franco

For his first new album in four years, David Gray decided to go for broke, sacking his entire band, calling up friends like Annie Lennox and Jolie Holland, and -- for the first time in a long time -- no longer being self-conscious about what he's doing, describing himself as feeling "liberated" now ...

Tuesday, December 2 2008

Jolie Holland

By Tyler Wilcox

Like Bob Dylan, the studio versions of a lot of Jolie Holland’s songs are mere blueprints for what’s possible onstage.

Friday, October 10 2008

Jolie Holland: The Living and the Dead

By Michael Metivier

Holland demonstrates as convincingly as ever her playful yet solid command of Americana past and present as music to be lived in rather than just visited on a lark.

Thursday, May 31 2007

Even looking inward, rapper maintains a healthy distrust

By Len Righi

Thursday, May 10 2007

Sage Francis: Human the Death Dance

By Mike Schiller

It is Sage Francis' self-inflicted precedent of thematically consistent albums that exposes the weaknesses of Human the Death Dance.

Monday, June 12 2006

Jolie Holland: Springtime Can Kill You

By Michael Metivier

Apologies in advance for referring to this album as "Ms. Holland's Opus". It was cheap,easy, and I'm sure it's been done before, but it felt soooooo good.

Thursday, September 9 2004

Jolie Holland: Escondida

By Zeth Lundy