Sonic Reducer The most recent effort from garage-rockers The Willowz is much crisper and less muddled but still no more catchy than their previous releases. [...] Simon McCormack \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More
The Purple Cow Story Playing Each Show As If It Were Their Last The Purple Cow Story grew up idolizing fellow Oklahomans The Flaming Lips and were further influenced by local Norman, Okla., band the Chainsaw [...] Simon McCormack \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More The Purple Cow Story
Rx Bandits Former Pop-Ska Figureheads Have Become A Prog Rock Outfit To Be Reckoned With Not so long ago, the RX Bandits were another cog in the gear of what seemed like an unstoppable ska machine. Propelled by [...] Simon McCormack \ Mar 29, 2007 Read More Picture this: RX Bandits
La Junta Benefit Concert Sticking Out Like A Sore Thumb And Loving Every Minute Of It For Nick Pena, frontman of Santa Fe’s Latin rap-rock trio La Junta, school taught him a somewhat unintended lesson. "In high school," says [...] Simon McCormack \ Mar 15, 2007 Read More Guess Junta?
The Prix Don't Let The Name Fool You Cashew Van Harding and the rest of his band, The Prix (pronounced the "pree"), were sitting by the radio, anxiously waiting to hear [...] Simon McCormack \ Mar 08, 2007 Read More The Prix, pixilated
Red Elvises From Russia, With Love I like to believe that, in my daily life, I exercise at least a small degree of free will and have some say [...] Simon McCormack \ Mar 01, 2007 Read More Oleg Bernov
Whole Wheat Bread Crunk Punk As clichéd as punk covers have gotten these days, you’d be hard pressed to find a better cover, punk or otherwise, than Whole [...] Simon McCormack \ Feb 22, 2007 Read More Whole Wheat Bread
Isis Psychedelia Sans Self-Indulgence After 10 years together, proggish art rock five-piece Isis knows when to expand an instrumental interlude and when to pull it back. They [...] Simon McCormack \ Feb 22, 2007 Read More Isis
Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Dance Party At Burt's Partying Hard With Rap And The Booty Green If you’re itchin’ to dance, down to get down and jonesing for novelty drinks, the place to be is Burt’s Tiki Lounge tonight [...] Simon McCormack \ Feb 22, 2007 Read More Get down with your fat self.
The Irish Brothers While the Orange County power-trio The Irish Brothers are about as Irish as, well, any American with an Irish surname, that doesn’t mean [...] Simon McCormack \ Feb 15, 2007 Read More The Irish Brothers
