A litany of Solid State/ Rise Records bands— My Children My Bride, Every Bridge Burned and Oh, Sleeper—feel emotional, then enraged, then emotional [...]

Bands of the noise music persuasion must always be wary of making noise for noise’s sake. They can cause as many headaches as [...]

E is for Ella Vader this Saturday, Dec. 1, at Burt’s Tiki Lounge (21+, free). You also adore Lousy Robot, Ghost Kimo and [...]

This live, two-CD release chronicles the energetic, contemporary sound of the dodecatet 10 years into its existence. Pianist/composer/arranger Lindner, who contributes six of [...]

Raw-voiced Johnette Napolitano, best-known for her work with Concrete Blonde, knows how to do a lot. She can make art outside her five-acre [...]

Rising from the ashes of punkers Tsunami Bomb is Petaluma, Calif.’s The Action Design. It’s the pet project of ex-Tsunami Bomb members Emily [...]

Listening to free jazz is like gazing into a world beyond reason, lacking discernible form–it’s what emerges from the human brain before being [...]

As hard as it is to admit, mostly because the band is targeted at prepubescent girls and its lead singer looks like a [...]

When you listen to a Rat City Riot track, you might think singer Noah Bricker just choked down a handful of glass shards. [...]

I trekked down a gravel road in Mesilla, near Las Cruces. Navigating the backstreet past rundown trailers inhabited by rough-looking junkyard dogs, I [...]