Music

The set was kind of funny at first. There were two drum sets next to each other, eight guitars on a rack in the back, a keyboard, and a few more guitars sprinkled on the stage for good measure. It almost looked like the front window at a music store...

If an album has a song called “Lasers ’N Lesbians,” what’s not to love? That’s pretty much all that can be or needs to be said about Double Panther, the latest album to come out from Diego’s Umbrella, a gypsy-rock band from San Francisco...

 Grown organically from a decade of electronic music, this week’s Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts will build cultural bridges between audiences, performers and continents with more ambition than ever before...

  Two years ago, Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog — a quirky, loveable indie-soul band that released its so-so sixth album Shame, Shame on April 6 — packed Denver’s Hi-Dive, a tiny bar on South Broadway that holds about 200 people when the fire department isn’t looking. ...

  Citizen Cope has never been an artist that has enjoyed much radio play or even a big push from his record companies, even though he has spent his entire career up to now on major labels...

  For years now, the Curious Theatre Company has impressed me. Always serious but never pretentious, Curious pushes envelopes while never forgetting that the first rule of theater is — and no, it’s not that you do not talk about theater — that theater must ...

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  When Rogue Wave’s Pat Spurgeon was experiencing the quickly passing days of childhood, he undoubtedly dreamed about the future. He may have fantasized about becoming a professional musician, recording albums and having adoring fans that cheer uncontrollably when...

Austin, Texas, indie rockers Spoon have flown under the radar for most of their nearly 15-year career, garnering an underground following but only emerging onto the above-ground scene after several poppy cuts from 2007’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga wedged into radio rotation. ...

David Allan Coe’s stained legacy When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy,” wrote William Hazlitt, “it ceases to be a subject of interest.” Apply that maxim to country music legend David Allan Coe, and you’ll get a mixed bag of love and hate. At one ...

The Internet has really been the bully of the last decade. Like the mafia, it moved into town and immediately took a cut out of every lucrative opportunity there was. It broke journalism’s kneecaps, smuggled the breath right out of the music industry’s lungs, and ...

Name a group that released a debut album so potent it sustained interest in the group, with relatively modest help from from subsequent albums, for decades...