J.D. Stooks, 311, Ree Boado, Open Mike Eagle and More in This Week's Issue

This week's main music feature is on singer-songwriter J.D. Stooks, who almost gave up music when the songs that'd always come easily to him stopped appearing.A tragedy -- a friend's suicide -- shook him up enough to start writing again, and thus he has a new album called Shutterbug out.We've...

By Martin Cizmar

February 17, 2011

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This week's main music feature is on singer-songwriter J.D. Stooks, who almost gave up music when the songs that'd always come easily to him stopped appearing.

A tragedy -- a friend's suicide -- shook him up enough to start writing again, and thus he has a new album called Shutterbug out.

We've also got stories on LA rapper Open Mike Eagle, who explains why so many of his fans of conscientious so-called "alternative" hip-hop are white, and Ree Boado, a singer-songwriter with a ready-for-radio sound and some great songs.

Also look for smaller advances on shows by 311, Death Angel, Sebedoah, and Lucero.

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