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Every once in a while—if you're lucky—there will be that moment where you realize that the band has gone completely off the setlist. For the most part, this doesn't really happen. As much as you want to believe that you really are part of the...

Saturday, 03 November 2007
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Out from the ashes of doom comes BBE’s “Lost and Found” series Rockabilly and Jump Blues from Keb Darge and Cut Chemist. That’s right, read it one more time. Keb Darge, the up front and center funk-meister and turntablist/producer extraordinaire...

Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Anaheim rock-trio The Willowz released their third album, Chautauqua, earlier this year and the group is now gearing up for a tour this winter alongside dance-rockers Electric 6.  The tour is mostly comprised of dates across the southern United States but does...

Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Asked to typify the city of San Francisco as an animal, I'd call her a chameleon. Asked again to typify the crowd that showed up on a moody Sunday night to listen to Oakland masters of stoner metal (High On Fire) and Japanese masters of apocalyptic post-rock...

Thursday, 01 November 2007
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Anyone else find the light-speed distribution of mass media a bit frightening? Does anybody else find the incredible availability of conspicuous critiques and music-related bibble-babbles relentlessly shoved down of all our throats via radio, via television, via the...

Wednesday, 31 October 2007
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If releasing five versions initially wasn't enough, and despite mixed reviews, Billy Corgan's soap-opera circus, Smashing Pumpkins, will be re-releasing their sixth LP, Zeitgeist, on October 30, 2007. This new version will feature one unreleased song, “Ma...

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
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Post-hardcore Brooklyn four-piece The Forms are announced a national tour this Fall in support of their self-titled sophomore record, which just came October 23 on the band's own label, Threespheres/The Rebel Group. The tour kicks off today, October 30th with a...

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
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Right from the very outset of their November 24, 1981 performance in Montreal (later hailed as the last concert, along with the encore performance the next night, to showcase Queen ‘raw’), Queen stepped onstage with something to prove, which shows in their...

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
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From all I can tell, Paul Oakenfold just up and decided one day that he wanted to be a DJ, and shortly thereafter, planned to be the most popular DJ in the world. Whether or not he trumps all of the other disc jockeys in existence is up for debate, but with the release...

Tuesday, 30 October 2007
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Coachella came and went. Some of us missed the unprecedented Jesus and Mary Chain reunion (read: ME), and the buzz has long been gone. And as exciting as a reunion can be, they can come and go like the 200 dollars you may have paid to see it (read: The...

Friday, 26 October 2007
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