Subject: Paul Simon

• Barclay Martin CD-Release Show

  June 6, 2008

• New Forrest Whitlow MP3s

  June 11, 2008

• The Download Extra: New Spoon MP3s

  June 17, 2008

• Vampire Weekend, with White Williams at Liberty Hall, 9/11/08

  September 12, 2008

• Out On the Weekend, pt 2.: Mongol Beach Party Reunion, Second Night

  It's hard to write -- or even care -- about the reunion show of a band that you weren't around to see during its first run. But I'm glad I saw Mongol Beach Party get back to the jam after 15 years of dormancy, especially considering I came with zero personal expectations -- just the recommendation of people whose taste I trust. Cody Wyoming, for example, told me earlier in the week that MBP was one of three local bands that he would sneak out of the house to see when he was a kid (the other two

  December 22, 2008

• Jerry Douglas

  November 14, 2002

• Concert Review: The Love Hangover, Sunday, February 15, at the Record Bar

  Forester MichaelValery Price and Nathan Granner know what love is. Click on photo for slide show. The concept is simple and kind of genius: get male-female duets to sing songs about love the day after Valentine's Day. Devised by a guy named Richard Alwyn in North Carolina ten years ago, the Love Hangover took place yesterday in only four cities nationwide: Ann Arbor, Brooklyn, Raleigh and Kansas City. Why so few? Perhaps its because few places have singer-songwriter-organizers as enterprising a

  February 16, 2009

• Lamb

  January 22, 2004

• Famous musicians (and not) using Twitter

  John Roderick's festively wintry avatar.A couple weeks ago, Wayward writer Greg Franklin wrote about attending a writing workshop in Seattle with Long Winters man John Roderick. In it, Greg praised Roderick's Twitter, and, now that I've finally looked at it, I gotta agree. It is pretty good. 1:06 a.m. yesterday: "Before interviewing the Master Musicians of Joujouka I went to the Russian baths and had a schvitz. Then we ate lamb. Take that, Paul Simon." Recently, Pitchfork did a roundup of oth

  February 20, 2009

• Billy Ebeling and the Late for Dinner Band

  August 12, 2004

• Vampire Weekend

  September 11, 2008

• Official Guide: 2008 Pitch Music Showcase and Awards

  August 7, 2008

• Son Ambulance

  July 10, 2008

• The Download

  Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

  June 19, 2008

• Spoon

  March 27, 2008

• Nanci Griffith

  March 20, 2008

• Spirit of Uganda

  February 28, 2008

• Cellar Beware

  December 6, 2007

• Pitch Music Showcase Guide

  August 3, 2006

• The Roseline

  A Wall Behind It (self-released)

  June 29, 2006

• Islands

  May 11, 2006

• Shaking Tree

  Friday, September 9, at Fatso's in Lawrence.

  September 8, 2005

• Fish Story

  A musical duo swims upstream.

  November 11, 2004

• The New Rolling Stone Album Guide

  Edited by Nathan Brackett with Christian Hoard (Fireside)

  November 11, 2004

• Night & Day Events

  Week of October 7, 2004

  October 7, 2004

• Art Gallery

  Perusing the fine art of flying beer cans with Mr. Garfunkel.

  March 4, 2004

• Secret Santanas

  Holidazed and confused? Consider this your stairway to shopping heaven.

  December 18, 2003

• Merry Mexmas

  El Vez invokes the spirit of a jolly fat man.

  December 12, 2002

• Art Attack

  The Unicorn puts on LaBute and the beast.

  October 31, 2002

• Afel Bocoum, Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabeté and Friends

  Mali Music (Astralwerks)

  September 19, 2002

• From Punk to Funk

  Alex Lowry, formerly of Dirty Steve, has cleaned up his act.

  May 2, 2002

• Showcase Showdown

  The price is right for the Pitch Music Showcase: 25 bands, $5.

  April 4, 2002

• Modern Art

  Art Garfunkel performs some old and some new material this weekend.

  March 7, 2002

• A New Tune

  After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same.

  November 8, 2001

• Buzzbox

  Back to the Beach

  June 21, 2001

• Paul Simon

  You're the One (Warner Bros.)

  October 26, 2000

• Listen to the Movie

  The Almost Famous soundtrack is almost more important thananything said in the movie.

  September 21, 2000

• Around Hear

  Hell on Earth, KC Blues & Jazz Fest, Bob Walkenhorst, The Get Up Kids, Arthur Dodge and the Horsefeathers.

  July 20, 2000

• Ziggy Marley

  June 11, 2009

• New releases, Tuesday, June 30

  Killswitch Engage release their self-titled fifth album. It will inevitably be described as "melodic" and / or "pummelling." The biggest release this week is Wilco's Wilco (The Album), which seems to be getting great reviews, even though every person I know who considers themselves a "big Wilco fan" thinks it's awful and boring. My coworker Dylan has purchased every Wilco release on the day of its release, to the point of taking his break at 10am, so he could walk into Love Garden as it opened

  June 30, 2009

• Concert Review: The Avett Brothers at the Crossroads

  If either the Avett Brothers or Railroad Earth had covered "Five Feet High & Rising" on Saturday night, it certainly would have been appropriate. Nick SpacekAnd nobody stole them. Good on you, hippies.​As it was, the crowd that was at the Crossroads showed an amazing amount of fanatical dedication. Through not one or two, but repeated torrential downpours and lightning scares, the crowd never wavered or thinned. They certainly ran for cover quite a few times, but other than that, everyone

  August 17, 2009

• Concert Review: Peter, Bjorn and John at the Granada

  BY IAN HRABE It's funny what a hit can do. Two years ago, I literally could not walk down Mass Street without hearing Peter, Bjorn and John's whistle-wielding surprise hit "Young Folks" blasting out of some boutique or pizza place. Suddenly, the song was everywhere. From clothing commercials, to sports video games, to Grey's Anatomy, to a sample in a Kanye West track. Rather than recreate the success of "Young Folks," with this year's Living Thing, the trio abandoned the anthemic sing-a-long po

  August 31, 2009