Gather round, young and old, as August Spies [see "Spotlight," March 1-7] dazzles the commonwealth with rock music. "Good show!" cries We Were [...]

The greatest lyricists in my computer’s music listings seem to move closer to one another like old friends as albums are added. Bird [...]

Los Angeles rapper Deadlee wasn’t wanting for media attention last year. On his release Assault with a Deadlee Weapon he fired back at [...]

Some of the fine print says: "That’s right. RollerCon, the international all-female roller derby convention, is looking for certified EMTs to volunteer their [...]

If there’s one thing The Ettes aren’t, it’s a chick band. While both their lead vocalist and drummer are of the female gender, [...]

You would not believe how many bands have named themselves A Murder of Crows. But only one lived in my Walkman throughout early [...]

The guys in The Fertile Crescent don’t know they’re kind of geniuses. Or maybe they’re in disguise as four shy 20-year-olds who mumble [...]

A Gingerbread Homecoming— It’s been less than a year since the Gingerbread Patriots dusted our desert from their keyboards and moved to Portland, [...]

In any regular situation, if "live recording" and "garage rock" were uttered in the same sentence, I’d shudder with the conjured mental images [...]

Trumpeter, composer and educator Ralph Alessi doesn’t have a problem winging it. Look, his recent—and exuberant—recording (Between the Lines Records) with his quintet, [...]