Sonic Reducer Part hippie drum circle, part lo-fi psychedelia, The Ruby Suns have crafted an indie-pop record with a "world music" feel about it. The [...] Alibi \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More
Bud Melvin Game Boy With A Twang Bud Melvin is going to South by Southwest (SXSW) to play Game Boy—sort of.With a little help from his favorite portable electronic device, [...] Simon McCormack \ Feb 21, 2008 Read More Where’s the Game Boy?
Sonic Reducer On Afreecanos , jazz pianist/composer Omar Sosa’s first studio recording since 2004’s masterwork Mulatos, the musics of Africa and the New World again [...] Alibi \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More
Liars A Case Study In Perpetual Reinvention Once unhappily lumped into the genre of dance punk, Los Angeles, Calif., power-trio Liars can now only be described as ever-changing. "We’re more [...] Simon McCormack \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More Liars
The Hot Club De Albuquerque Le Chat Lunatique On Work, Style, Corn And More How long have you existed, and how did you come to be? Muni Kulasinghe : Well, long version is this, and I going [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More
Le Chat Lunatique’s Demonic Lovely Gives Dancers And Listeners Cause For Celebration Cd Captures The Verve, Swing And Musicality Of This “Filthy, Mangy Jazz” Quartet The appeal of Le Chat Lunatique’s live performances owes as much to its bandmates patter and seriocomic stage presence as it does to [...] Mel Minter \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More The lads of Le Chat Lunatique (Demian Ginther)
The Breakfast Club Experience noise in the a.m. at Speakerwaffle, possibly the most damage you can do to your ears and mouth simultaneously. Redbeard ( AGL [...] Alibi \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More
50 Years Later, The Grammys Got Good Although our man Rahim Alhaj didn’t pick up Grammy gold for Best Traditional World Music Album, all in all—and I never thought I’d [...] Laura Marrich \ Feb 14, 2008 Read More
Buckethead OK, the hockey mask and KFC bucket “hat” are completely annoying and gimmicky, but you can’t deny Buckethead’s prowess with an electric guitar. [...] Alibi \ Feb 07, 2008 Read More
Sonic Reducer Aside from stories of an ancient Ouija board, missing fragments of the album and a spiritual medium playing catalyst, Mars Volta guitarist and [...] Alibi \ Feb 07, 2008 Read More