Charming, sun-soaked and obsessed with death. Tokyo’s all-girl power trio Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re is irony personified.It’s a hard-rock band with punk [...]

Since the early ’70s, Tim Finn has been both rocking and mellowing English-speaking countries in the Earth’s southern hemisphere. He was frontman for [...]

Tim Hagans’ trumpet burns on a low, hot blue flame, welding your ears to his ideas. He keeps pyrotechnics out of it; the [...]

Poor Man’s Ferrari, Five Minute Sin and Sabertooth Cavity shred for change. A portion of proceeds from their Saturday, Sept. 6 show at [...]

I remember all too well what it’s like to be 11 years old. Awkward. Insecure. Mentally and hygienically unstable. Nothing like the self-assured [...]

Albuquerque hip-hop tandem The 2Bers doesn’t pout or scream about its dissatisfaction with day-to-day annoyances. Instead, the chill-hop effused from The 2Bers’ cauldron [...]

Mac McCaughan gave Baltimore’s folksy shoegaze duo Wye Oak the best Christmas present of its young career.The co-founder of Merge Records, who has [...]

DJ Eldon does his thang every Friday night in The Cellar at Zinc (3009 Central NE). Never a cover, always 21+. (LM)

Clawhammer or Scruggs? Bluegrass banjo players pledge allegiance to one of the genre’s two major styles (which boil down to frailing in the [...]

If Robb Janov’s parents had banked their concern about his shyness just a little longer, he might have turned out to be a [...]