Turning sweet (and savage) 16 this year, Anglo-German electro-acoustic improv trio Konk Pack combines the skill and vision of three world-class improvisers. Tim [...]

For a young band, local psych-pop outfit You has already opened for an impressive roster of acts: akron/family, Chrome Sparks, M. Geddes Gengras, [...]

This, the first full week in October, is Mental Illness Awareness Week. Mental illness is still such a touchy subject that most people [...]

Portlandite post-punk trio Vice Device leads this split with yearning vocals and dissonant riffs on “Fractured Desire.” “Even Blind” has more of a [...]

Songwriter Frankie Rose inhabits a sublime realm. She formerly purveyed her talents as a founding member of the Vivian Girls, in Crystal Stilts [...]

Keif Henley is the self-described “fall guy” in Self Serve Sexuality Resource Center’s Pornotopia censorship debacle. When the City prosecuted the alternative adult [...]

Leon Russell made friends with the piano at 4 years old. Unlike many childhood friendships, the passage of nearly seven decades finds the [...]

New Mexico’s nuclear history is fascinating. I first met contributing writer Mike Smith—who wrote this week’s arts feature, We Are All Going to [...]

One-man sludge/doom outfit Hell—and its ungoogleable mastermind/multi-instrumentalist M.S.W.—has been cranking out funereal metal since 2009. Hailing from Salem, Ore., Hell has released three [...]

I was born in a swamp. OK, I was actually born in a well-appointed hospital in Alexandria, La. But I did grow up [...]