http://www.khou.com en-us Sat, 10 May 2008 02:20:02 GMT webmaster@khou.com http://www.khou.com/images/kiosk-sitelogo.gif 140 41 http://www.khou.com/ http://www.khou.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/092806ccrhMusicHarvest.217c6f33.html KHOU Music Island Def JamThis disc tops critic Thor Christensen's list of new fall albums likely to earn the "timeless" tag. Every musician wants to record a classic album, but the odds of doing it are astronomical: For every disc that earns the "timeless" tag, 10,000 wind up in the $5 bin at used-CD stores. Yet the long-shot odds don't stop bands from dreaming. With that in mind, we lay odds on which new fall releases will be classics 20 years from now. Sat, 10 May 2008 02:20:02 GMT http://www.khou.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/092006cckkMUSICubu.2acabce8.html KHOU Music ACQUIRED TASTE: Pere Ubu frontman David Thomas' voice is an endurance test: How quickly you get accustomed to it determines how many tracks you'll make it into Why I Hate Women. At times nasal, froggy, mumbly, whiny and gruff, his singing makes Tom Waits sound like a serious contender for next season's American Idol. On the other hand, it's an instrument portraying a range of emotions through just pitch changes and sounds. Either way, it's much more palpable in faster songs. Sat, 10 May 2008 02:20:02 GMT http://www.khou.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/091406ccdrMUSICguster.cd344c4.html KHOU Music Guster has been churning out smart, melodic pop since the mid-1990s, after three of the four current members met and bonded at Tufts University in Boston. Though the band's name isn't as instantly recognizable as They Might Be Giants, Guster has a similarly devoted following, thanks to its energetic live show, which is packed with witty onstage banter. Sat, 10 May 2008 02:20:02 GMT http://www.khou.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/091306cckkMUSICgirls.6ddb51f.html KHOU Music PLEASING, NOT PLACID: Not unlike Stereolab frontwoman Laetitia Sadier, Brazilian Girls lead singer Sabina Sciubba generates a cool multicultural allure of sugar and spice. And the raised-eyebrow implication that "everything nice" doesn't enter into it. Yet, also like Ms. Sadier, Ms. Sciubba draws the listener into a musical world that, beneath its pleasant surface, burbles with turbulence. Following the NYC-based quartet's 2005 self-titled debut, Talk to La Bomb embraces that turbulence. Sat, 10 May 2008 02:20:02 GMT http://www.khou.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/090606cckkMUSICeric.72123bdd.html KHOU Music MY VAN IS MY HOME: Last summer, Archers of Loaf and Crooked Fingers frontman Eric Bachmann joined those American artists, ranging from William Least Heat Moon to Jewel, who have lived in their vans. That vagabond period is plainly audible on To the Races, his first solo album (or at least the first under his own name), which he recorded in a hotel in North Carolina. Evidently, he had to stay in motion to find repose. Sat, 10 May 2008 02:20:02 GMT http://www.khou.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/090606cckkMUSICsoul.7204f5f3.html KHOU Music No one is lumping Audioslave in the flash-in-the-pan supergroup category these days. Nor should they. The voice of Soundgarden and the sound of Rage Against the Machine are now well past their honeymoon and have grown immensely together as a couple: so much so that each is equated as much with the present as their glorious and innovative pasts. Sat, 10 May 2008 02:20:02 GMT