Gibbard probably could’ve farted into the microphone for 90 minutes and made everyone in the room happy.
Emo’s got nothin’ on a revered Icelandic string section that brings its audience to tears.
Montreal hard rockers Priestess thrust riffs into the U.S. and the 21st century.
Bloc Party’s terrific 2005 debut, Silent Alarm, celebrated the now: twitchy guitars and madcap rhythms inside pithy, spartan tunes that…
The Shins, with Viva VoceDate: February 20, 2007Venue: Paramount Theatre “What? Where’s the bassist?” said Viva Voce drummer Kevin Robinson,…
Call me cynical as hell, but I’m pretty much convinced that Britney Spears is crazy like a fox, acting like…
The Broken West don’t sweat the petty stuff.
Lambchop’s downcast roots opus.
Former Sunny Day Real Estate frontman Jeremy Enigk says it himself.
The Electric Six’s high-voltage camp.
Magnolia Electric Co. are not a second-rate Crazy Horse.
The rainy day music of country rockers the Maldives.
For Scratch Acid’s reunion, David Yow will keep his pants on.
Coming soon to a record store near you: Travis DeVries’ answering machine anthology.
DJ Shadow’s not settling for reruns.
If you think Amy Millan has just now ‘gone country,’ you haven’t been listening.
Dweezil Zappa on the Sysiphean task of learning his father’s back catalog.
Dunno about you, but the best singer I caught this past week was Miss Scarlett Rose, the curvy chanteuse belting…
Despite the veritable monsoon on Capitol Hill last night, there was a pretty decent turnout at the Comet to catch…
Caught up recently with percussionist extraordinaire Barrett Martin (of Screaming Trees/Mad Season/Skinyard fame), and he filled me in on all…
