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Howard's End
Bow to Stern: Thank you for such a well-written story. I have been a loyal Howard Stern listener since I was 16 years old; I am now 39 ("After Shock," Sarah...
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All hail "Are You Gonna Go My Way." That slice of '70s-meets-'90s mass-market rock was a nice break from the sour-faced caterwauling of the "alternative" years. But Lenny...
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January has earned its reputation as the month in which studios unload all their cheapie horror flicks, but February is the month when we invariably get yet another...
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Most of you know the South African brooders in Seether from "Broken," a song from their debut album that they rerecorded for The Punisher soundtrack as a duet between Shaun...
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Tristan Prettyman is difficult to categorize, even though most everything written about her blames her sound on beach party superhero Jack Johnson. That might have something...
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Looks are deceiving. Listen and you'll hear classic reggae bounce and the toasting rap style of Jamaican dancehall, but glance at the album cover and you'll note that...
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Singing in a fragile, angelic falsetto, at first blush singer-songwriter Jeff Hanson sounds like folkie Suzanne Vega. But listen closely to the Milwaukee native's two albums...
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As you've undoubtedly heard, now is a good time to be of Montreal -- just ask such critically slurped bands as the Arcade Fire, Stars, and Broken Social Scene. It's also a...
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A cancellation by headliner Yellowcard has booted this Virginia Beach quintet to the top of the bill and brought in local luminaries Lydia for added entertainment value. Mae...
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Wasn't Josh Gracin that country-singing Marine from American Idol's second season? How did that jarhead land himself a recording contract? Well, actually, it's a lot easier to...
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Of all recent cross-cultural collaborations, the pairing of Senegalese vocalist Julia Sarr and French flamenco guitarist Patrice Larose proves to be one of the most...
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In a previous incarnation, Robinella and her husband, multi-instrumentalist and arranger Cruz Contreras, cut Robinella & the CC Band, an album that blended the swing of Bob...
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What exactly it was that went wrong with J Dilla's body over the course of the last few years is between him and his doctors, but whatever it was kept him flat on his back for...
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In the late '90s, the suffix "-tronica" could loosely be defined as "pop music to which drum loops have been glued." It was a goofy movement, one built on the questionable...
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John Fahey was an original, a guitarist with an instantly recognizable style, a conglomeration of ragtime, country, blues, Indian classical music, and electronica. With his...
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1. Yellowcard, Lights and Sounds (Capitol)
2. Cat Power, The Greatest (Matador Records)
3. The Strokes, First Impressions of Earth (RCA)
4. Panic! At the Disco, A Fever...
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For the glam-trash rocker set that's infiltrated seemingly every club in town for at least one night a week, it really doesn't get much bigger than this: Marky Ramone throwing...
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Thursday 2Anderson's Fifth Estate: Area 51 with DJ Jeremy (goth, industrial)
Axis/Radius: Ladies' Night with DJ Arrow (house, Top 40)
AZ 88: DJ P-Body (jazz fusion, funk)...
