The best songs of North Carolina’s Bowerbirds have always seemed equally eternal. Coruscated by Beth Tacular’s bird song and Phil Moore’s environmentalist empathy, “In Our Talons” was, at its core,…
Camp Evening Rig pitched its first tent deep in the timbers of Minneapolis, where the ruggedly attractive founding counselors performed at the inaugural all-camp talent show, back in 2006. It…
The story of GWAR is carved across the history of this hopeless planet, but GWAR themselves are not of this world… Their story begins far past Uranus, in the deepest reaches of space,…
The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs—the triumphant fifth album by Wye Oak—begins with an explosion. For a few seconds, piano, drums, and a playful keyboard loop gather momentum;…
Raw and rocking Natchez Mississippi blues circa 97 in the classic Fat Possum mold (Insane Instrumental and so forth). Drummer Hezekiah Early is best known as the leader of the…
Born in a military hospital in South America, Immortal Technique was brought to the United States in the early 80’s while a civil war was breaking out in his native…
For as much as punk rock is about breaking down the barriers we build around ourselves, its a challenge to be a peoples punk band when the scene that spawned…
Trapper Schoepp has befriended a strange and diverse cast of characters during his 20+ years. That small army of rogues and romantics, drifters and dreamers, soldiers and schemers populate his…
The Burning Brides formed in Philadelphia in early 1999. Dimitri Coats and future wife and musical partner Melanie Campbell joined together after graduating The Juilliard School. They spent two years…
Trina Hamlin combines gentle understanding with raw emotion in a way that is, quite simply, captivating from the first note. With a rich, powerful voice, Hamlin reveals a rare confluence…