Paging Dr. Octagon Triumphant Or Resistant, An Innovator Returns It was your average rabies call. Dr. Octagon was paged to Room 109, unaware of his looming demise. “I’ll tell you what,” spat [...] Marisa Demarco \ Apr 26, 2007 Read More Dr. Octagon
Music To Your Ears On Hos and Hip-hop— Last week in response to Oprah’s two-part Hip-hop Town Hall (which was in response to Don Imus being a [...] Jessica Cassyle Carr \ Apr 26, 2007 Read More
Matt Wilson’s Arts And Crafts Quartet Fashions Serious Fun Drummer Looks To Leave A Good-Time Sonic Residue Behind Good drummers keep time and move things forward. Great drummers also sculpt sonic space, expanding and contracting it, shaping it to the musical [...] Mel Minter \ Apr 19, 2007 Read More Matt Wilson gets crafty.
Bang! Bang! Putting The Sex Back In Sex, Drugs And Rock ’N’ Roll Chicago’s self-proclaimed sex rockers Bang! Bang! write songs that are, to borrow a line from a late-night dating service commercial, fun and flirty. [...] Simon McCormack \ Apr 19, 2007 Read More Bang! Bang! is super.
He’s Not Dead Yet! Gordy Andersen celebrates 50 years on the planet Rock with Sasquatch, SuperHeavyGoatAss, Word Salad, Fast Heart Mart and, of course, Black Maria. Friday, [...] Alibi \ Apr 19, 2007 Read More
Vertigo Venus Björk Meets Slayer One review described metal/industrial/punk duo/quartet Vertigo Venus as "What Nine Inch Nails would sound like if Trent Reznor had a sense of humor." [...] Simon McCormack \ Apr 19, 2007 Read More Do the zombie with Vertigo Venus.
Sonic Reducer Ozomatli never fails to surprise by chopping up surprising roots and throwing them in the stew pot. This band is more than "eclectic," [...] Marisa Demarco \ Apr 19, 2007 Read More
Music To Your Ears Spank You Very Much, Gordy— Some argue that Gordy Andersen helped launch Albuquerque’s independent music scene as we know it. Way back in [...] Laura Marrich \ Apr 19, 2007 Read More
Sonic Reducer The most recent effort from garage-rockers The Willowz is much crisper and less muddled but still no more catchy than their previous releases. [...] Simon McCormack \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More
The Purple Cow Story Playing Each Show As If It Were Their Last The Purple Cow Story grew up idolizing fellow Oklahomans The Flaming Lips and were further influenced by local Norman, Okla., band the Chainsaw [...] Simon McCormack \ Apr 12, 2007 Read More The Purple Cow Story
