There's no shortage of albums in the world that, drawing from a multitude of audio sources, manufacture and present pastiche forms of song that reach in many directions at once and throw sparks at all of them, thus making them difficult to qualify. Such records...
Forty years after Woodstock, the legacy of Crosby, Stills & Nash is not – and could never justifiably be – in dispute but that doesn't mean the origins and methodolgy haven't been a little obscured in the haze over the years. CSN established a...
As part of the music epidemic survey group, I’m here to inform you of awesome electronic music and its influence on the youth of this world. Recently there has been a huge outbreak in Los Angeles. We had quarantine over the main area, LA Memorial Coliseum and...
How many bands can say that they started outside of the box and ignored the conventions of established rock orthodoxy but coerced a legion of fans to follow them without attempting to reach for the brass ring of success even once? The Mars Volta can. Since appearing on...
Funny thing about Wilco and their luck. Ever since the band lost a member as well as the confidence of their old record label (Reprise) during the recording sessions for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot but came out on top with a whole lot of kudos for the aforementioned album,...
There is something about the energy level of a hometown show by a Bay Area metal band that just cannot be surpassed. Case in point – although Testament was playing the approximately 1100 person capacity Fillmore, there was a buzz in the air that made me feel like...
Once, The New York Dolls (along with The Heartbreakers) represented all that was best and bawdiest about the primordial NYC punk scene; they were loud-mouthed, swinging, swaggering queens that nobody wanted to fuck with because they had the dangerous chops to back up...
In the years since he released Play, Moby has seemed to try everything he can think of to escape the shadow of his own greatest (read: best commercially received) sound creation. In the ten years since the singer/producer made a mint marketing every song on Play, he...
What do you get when you intermingle the sensibilities and staple motifs of every globally celebrated pop act from the last forty-five years with some of the great melodic outsiders and misfits from the same period? That's the question Patrick Watson asks (and...
At what point does a phenomenon cease being an annual 'big show' and start being regarded as a cultural staple? Granted, there is no shortage of rock n' roll festivals on the North American summer calendar but, since it launched fifteen years ago, the Vans...