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With a title like The Greatest and a hot pink album cover featuring boxing glove bling, Chan Marshall (otherwise known as Cat Power) seems to be making an effort to separate...
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We popcorn-chomping hitchhikers never know who will pick us up on the roadside. In Flirting With Disaster, it was a neurotic Manhattan adoptee on a nationwide search for his...
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There is no good explanation for the coat that hangs in my closet.
Not that it's ugly. Far from it. Heathery brown tweed, with a nipped waist and shoulders that sit just so,...
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Artists in Residences
Capital "A"-holes: There are Artists (with a capital A), and then there are artists. Unfortunately, The Bird paints them all with a very broad brush...
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By employing the chopped and screwed mix method -- a style developed by Houston's own DJ Screw that slows down a song's tempo for a lurching, dizzying effect akin to a...
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When Katrina struck, he borrowed a truck from the U-Haul dealership where he worked his second job. Instead of loading up his worldly possessions before fleeing the path of...
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A prime example of a drunken idea that turned out to be a good one, Head Wound City is a noise-rock supergroup of sorts, featuring two members each from hypercore outfits The...
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It's like clockwork. As each and every night out rolls around, you swear it'll be filled with excitement, rather than the regular routine of dinner and a movie. But alas,...
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Though millions of people heard his influence on classic efforts by Nirvana, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, and others, recorded during his stint as de facto in-house producer for Sub...
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Sometimes the rut you're in is bigger than all that. Sometimes it's deeper and wider than just Whoa, I wear too much orange or So there are other channels besides the Spice...
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Don't let the band's name, the band members' eyeglasses, or the kittens they're brandishing on the album cover fool you. The dudes in We Are Scientists look every bit as...
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San Francisco band Film School's brand of music is an anguished yet expertly resurrected form of shoegaze; it's Slowdive for the new millennium. One of the tracks from its...
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Meanwhile, in a back room somewhere in northern New Jersey . . .
"Do you know why I've gathered you here for this important meeting?"
"No, Boss," replied the eight...
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Some Girls don't do eyeliner. They aren't sweet. They don't take things lightly. Oh yeah, and they're dudes. The brutality on the five-piece's latest disc, Heaven's Pregnant...
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Fans of music heavier than the cast of Celebrity Fit Club 3 have had much to rejoice about over the past couple of years, what with so many powerful, innovative sounds coming...
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His dad, novelist Larry McMurtry, bought him his first guitar when he was 7, and his mother, an English professor, taught him how to play it, but even so, the acorn resides...
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Whatever happened to those freaky-deaky sisters we knew back in high school? You know, that one pair of punky-funky-gothy chicks who dressed like they were Tim Burton groupies...
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Thursday 19 Ain't Nobody's Bizness: DJ Suzy (hip-hop, dance)
Anderson's Fifth Estate: Area 51 with DJ Jeremy (goth, industrial)
Club Dwntwn: DJs Kirby and Chris Shannon...
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Puerto Rican born and raised house DJ Robbie Rivera earned his chops the hard way on the island, spinning for whomever would hire him -- without the benefit of pitch control...
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1. Matisyahu, Live at Stubbs (Sony)
2. Sublime, Gold (Geffen)
3. The Strokes, First Impressions of Earth (RCA)
4. Eminem, Curtain Call (Aftermath)
5. System of a Down,...
