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Volume 69, Issue 74,
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Arts & Entertainment
Local artist fights
banality
From the looks of Grant Olney and after getting a glimpse
of his sticker-plastered rear window, one might expect to hear the average
pop/indie rock that has plagued the local scene since New Found Glory hit
it big a couple years ago.
Ingram Hill set to explode with
its radio rock sound
Fans of radio rock, where bands play it safe and stations
play even safer, will have much to like about Ingram Hill's debut album
June's Picture Show. With a bluesy, rock feel that tosses in a couple of
country touches, Ingram Hill seems poised to fill the FM void between the
Counting Crows, Creed and Pat Green.
Smith sings new hope
At some point in the early 1990s, after the demise of
the urban cowboy era, country music delved even deeper into pop music and
the amalgamation dubbed "new country" was born. Artists started giving
the old country formula a facelift. It was sped up, dumbed down, and although
many of the themes seemed to stay the same, new ones were added.
Subset sails past pop
Landing somewhere between petulant psychobabble and clever
commentary on the vagaries of modern heartbreak, Austin-based indie-pop
band Subset proves it can be a groove and a gas on its latest album, Dueling
Devotions.
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