I gave some background info on crusty, cathartic Virginia-based sludge/doom trio Salome when vocalist Kat stopped through to discuss her day job as a massage therapist and a yoga instructor. And I…   Read Story »

Some things never change: On Hurley -- streaming in full at MySpace, so play along -- Rivers Cuomo still inhabits the mind and awkward body of a 14-year-old boy, alternately frustrated by, and in awe…   Read Story »

With fall on the horizon, we're escaping a slow summer and shifting into that final, fertile phase of the music year's release cycle. Which makes it a ripe time to get some perspective on the year,…   Read Story »

Long-ago dark-synth BTW Cold Cave's "Life Magazine" is no stranger to the advertising realm: Around the holidays Love Comes Close's poppiest moment ended up in a regularly aired Radio Shack spot.…   Read Story »

Name: Cardinal Progress Report: Prepping their second album, the follow up to 1994’s Cardinal for release in 2011 (they are currently unsigned). Recorded outside Portland and in Cape Cod. Eric…   Read Story »

Givers are a young quintet from Lafayette, Louisiana, the local openers for Dirty Projectors last year at Chelsea's in Baton Rouge. The Projectors hadn't heard them before that night but were…   Read Story »

Wyclef Jean announced that he was running for president of Haiti at the beginning of the month. Since then a few problems have come up: there are questions about his Haitian residency (you have to…   Read Story »

A few years ago I wrote a positive review of CocoRosie's The Adventures of Ghosthorse And Stillborn. Too positive, it turns out: The publication that assigned it killed the piece at the 11th hour and…   Read Story »

I first saw Buke And Gass last summer at Joe's Pub as part of the Happy Ending Music & Reading Series. They performed some of their songs on a bill where I did a reading about black metal (and,…   Read Story »