Rahim's A Grammy Hopeful Rahim's A Grammy Hopeful Iraquerque oudist and composer Rahim Alhaj is up for a Grammy! Alhaj’s nomination was announced toward the end of 2007, but you’ll have [...] Laura Marrich \ Feb 07, 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
Roman Numerals Rhythm Rock With A Breadbasket Work Ethic It started as a Joy Division tribute band, but once its members got tired of aping their idols, Roman Numerals set some ground [...] Simon McCormack \ Jan 31, 2008 Read More Roman Numerals
Sonic Reducer With so many singer-songwriters out there, perhaps genetics is one surefire way to separate the diamonds from the rough. Liam Finn, son of [...] Alibi \ Jan 31, 2008 Read More
Drawn Together A Smile from the Trenches (Grand Junction, Colo.), Bury Your Wings, Brokencyde and Glenn Mara meet up for an all-ages screamy rock sesh [...] Alibi \ Jan 31, 2008 Read More
A Chat With Wynton Marsalis The Jazz At Lincoln Center Flagship Sails In Over the years, music director, trumpeter and gentleman Wynton Marsalis has maneuvered several smaller craft—a quartet, a quintet and a septet—through New Mexico’s [...] Mel Minter \ Jan 31, 2008 Read More
Little Women The Band You Won't Hear Live This Week I just got word from Derek Caterwaul that the Little Women show slated for Thursday, Jan. 31, won’t be happening—the guitarist developed tendonitis [...] Marisa Demarco \ Jan 31, 2008 Read More Eat yer heart out, Louisa May Alcott (Alexander Perrelli)
I Kid You Not "My biggest fear as a parent," confesses a first-time father and YouTube documentarian, "was that I would have to spend the next several [...] Laura Marrich \ Jan 31, 2008 Read More Dan Zanes and a wee friend
Fake It ’Til You Make It If These Guys Became Rockstars, You Sure As Hell Can There are a multitude of phony-baloney "bands" that have made the jump from fiction to radio. Bands that blurred the line between fantasy [...] Maren Tarro and Laura Marrich \ Jan 24, 2008 Read More Bwaaaagh!