Sonic Reducer From the CD’s opening seconds, the ethereal touch, musicality and instinctual rhythmic excitement of Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba captivate the ears, heart and [...] Alibi \ Mar 27, 2008 Read More
A String Quartet Named Ethel Musically Omnivorous Group Plays With Itself And Its Audience Calling Ethel a string quartet is like calling Jimi Hendrix a blues guitarist. It’s perfectly accurate and almost completely misleading.The New York–based group [...] Mel Minter \ Mar 27, 2008 Read More Ethel
Saul Williams You Should Be Screaming Niggy Tardust At The Top Of Your Lungs It’s tough to get a read on rapper, actor and slam poet Saul Williams. He seems to have a great deal of faith [...] Simon McCormack \ Mar 27, 2008 Read More Saul Williams dishing out a knuckle sandwich
“Fuck Face!!” Torture Victim, Last House on the Left, Calling Kevorkian and Vetalas love kittens while simultaneously hating your guts this Saturday, March 29, at [...] Alibi \ Mar 27, 2008 Read More
Southwest Tastemakers Kiss spring’s perennial blush of coy colors and prim construction goodbye. For the next three months, autumnal layering and earth tones will ram [...] Hanna Sumour \ Mar 27, 2008 Read More
Nightmare Sexual Aerobics, Yay! Feel your brain cells coalesce into violently happy goo as hypersexual, disturbingly cute, underwear-clad Punk Bunny (Hollyweird, Calif.), the mighty Beefcake In Chains, [...] Alibi \ Mar 20, 2008 Read More
Spring Crawl Doesn't Pass Go, Fails To Collect $200 Spring Crawl Doesn't Pass Go, Fails To Collect $200 The queries started trickling in a few months ago. (That is to say: The e-mails that made it past my bloodthirsty spamtrap were [...] Laura Marrich \ Mar 20, 2008 Read More
Sonic Reducer The last time you heard The Presidents of the United States of America (POTUSA) was probably an election year—1996, in fact, before they [...] Alibi \ Mar 20, 2008 Read More
John Ralston The Singer/Songwriter Who Sometimes Wishes He Wasn’t If you’ve had it with singer/songwriters, you’re not alone: John Ralston’s right there with you. Even though his name appears in big print [...] Simon McCormack \ Mar 20, 2008 Read More Striking the singer/songwriter pose
Ultraviolet Sound Testosterone-Oozing Electro Talking the talk is always easier than walking the walk, but when the former is done by the members of Ultraviolet Sound, it’s [...] Simon McCormack \ Mar 20, 2008 Read More Give us a kiss
