Artist: Paul Westerberg
Record Review from web archive December 11, 2008
Paul Westerberg
Paul Westerberg is probably not going to make the album that some of us have been waiting for since whenever you think his last great record was. (Pleased To Meet Me if you’re being honest, All Shook Down if you’re being generous, 14 Songs if you’re me.) And there’s a reason for that. His burning [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #66 Nov-Dec 2006
Paul Westerberg – “Open Season” Soundtrack
Throughout Paul Westerberg’s career as frontman for garage-pop band the Replacements and then as a solo artist, a sense of childlike fun has more than occasionally infused his songwriting. It should come as no surprise, then, that Westerberg, who has also been a dad for a few years now, jumped at the chance to score [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #58 July-Aug 2005
Paul Westerberg – Music Farm (Charleston, SC)
When Paul Westerberg dashed out onto the stage at the Music Farm and ignited a lighter fluid-soaked green polyester jacket like some sort of freakish tribute to Hendrix at Monterey, it marked the end of one truly bizarre night of music and mayhem. It was Westerberg’s first visit to Charleston since the cross-country trek in [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Paul Westerberg – Folker
Paul Westerberg really should just go ahead and make an album called Hamlet and get it over with. Going all the way back to the Replacements, Westerberg has spent his career obsessing over commitment issues involving loyalty, romance and fame. He rarely makes a declaration without some sort of qualifier, usually leaving himself a back-door [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #48 Nov-Dec 2003
Paul Westerberg – Come Feel Me Tremble
Unlike many of his postpunk counterparts, Paul Westerberg never seemed to mind, at least in theory, the idea of writing catchy, perfectly constructed pop songs, and his early solo work (1993′s 14 Songs, a handful of tracks on the Singles soundtrack) bore this out. Westerberg spent most of the last decade in what used to [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Paul Westerberg – Easy Street Records (Seattle, WA)
It takes a special musician to perform a shambolic, flub-laden solo set in an unopened, unfinished record store with a shitty PA and send 600 people home happy. Easy Street Records’ new location, which didn’t formally open until a few weeks later, was the setting for Paul Westerberg’s first live performance in six years, the [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #20 March-April 1999
Paul Westerberg – Beyond misanthropy
“Father. Artist. Midwesterner. Eccentric. Walker…” So begins Paul Westerberg’s noun-filled description of himself in the bio for his new album, Suicaine Gratifaction. The order of the words is important, for not only is Westerberg an astute judge of his own character, he’s also a stickler about prioritizing. As always, he relishes the notion of mixing [...]
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