Music
No Rush to Record
As Pierce The Veil gears up for the release of its fourth album, some are predicting big things for the band, which has enjoyed steady and substantial growth in its popularity...
The House of Marley’s headphones bring Positive Vibration
With the music industry clamoring to find ways to make...
‘Eyelid Movies’ is worth the wait
Wikipedia says a phantogram is a form of optical illusion...
Country soul
For years, Lucero has been considered by some to be an alt-country band. But ask Lucero frontman Ben Nichols about the label, and it’s obvious he always saw his band in a different light...
Electric Red: Ghosts of fusion past
You hear it immediately, and practically see it, too. The glowering and stooped visage of post-Bitches Brew Miles Davis, prowling across a stage and cueing one of his sidemen for a solo with a hand gesture, the trumpet pointed south, the music tightening and ...
Temper Trap’s big arc
Sound check always reminds us a little of the famous quote about people who love the law and enjoy sausage, only applied to music. We caught The Temper Trap’s road manager last week a bit off-guard for our phone interview with the lads; the world was ending behind ...
Unclassifiable
Dafnis Pietro was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in 1974, and he didn’t take long to become immersed in the rich Afrocuban musical tradition of his homeland...
The subdudes close the cycle
Summoning imagery from real American mythology, especially the mythology of the Old West, is the kind of legerdemain usually out of reach for most popular music franchises. And it should probably stay that way...
Mother of reinvention
While he was growing up in Athens, Georgia, nobody in Kevin Barnes’ immediate family played music. They had a piano in the house and his sisters took piano lessons briefly, but his parents never listened to music unless they were in the car. Fortunately, the Of ...
A final bow
To help generate a buzz for the release of its latest CD, If Not Now, When, Incubus’ management came up with a novel idea. The band would rent out a gallery storefront in Los Angeles, set up its instruments and play shows in this small space for six nights over a ...
Vintage sheen: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
Sallie Ford says that growing up, she was more comfortable singing in groups than by herself. (Her sister, after all, was the one with the performance flair.) Ford was never one for the spotlight, she says...
