Since they were recently touted by the New York Press as "the best unsigned band in New York," it's easy to imagine that somewhere the ghost of Joey Ramone is smiling down on...
Possessed of a deep, smooth, country-fried croon, Tom Heinl favors much the same musical turf staked out by Ray Price, but Heinl's subject matter is just a tad bit more, well,...
What the world needs now is a whimsical pop band with songs about death and ghosts. With the release of 2003's Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone, the Unicorns amply fit the...
Eric Bibb is a singer. No, not a singer in the corrupted sense fostered by American Idol, full of warbling melisma and acrobatics that do much but say nothing. Instead, Bibb...
While the nearby Super Bash may have the quantity, this multiday downtown mega-getdown will have the quality, and what's more, it's all absolutely free. Sure, none of the...
Ever since his father died of a heart attack on January 1, 1997, J.T. Van Zandt has pretty much stayed clear of the in-fighting around the legacy that iconoclastic singer...
The smoothest of smooth R&B; brothas will be out in abundance for this post-Christmas concert. Maze featuring Frankie Beverly will be there because, well, people would probably...
This long-time-in-the-making documentary finally sees the light of day in our city this week with two screenings arranged by KPFT's Rad Richard. James Spooner's 75-minute film...
Even if you find indie rock boring and annoying, the genre is more than palatable in the hands of locals the Kants. These rock philosophers play a ringing, melodic brand of the...
Back in 1984, revered jazz/soul stylists (and longtime pals) Nancy Wilson and Ramsey Lewis collaborated for the first time together on wax on the Stanley Clarke-produced The...
League City native Greg Ashley is similar to one of those American jazz or blues musicians who had to leave the country to attain proper recognition for their art. Only Ashley...
He's a house DJ, and he's from the San Francisco Bay Area. Logically, we could stop this piece right here, since that sentence alone would attract house-music lovers from all...
When we heard there was this hip-hop/techno-loving, Oakland-bred maven named Alias coming to town this week, we didn't know whether to pity him or admire his ballsiness. It's...
In one of 2003's best musical surprises, Nada Surf -- a band that has struggled to exorcise the memory of its 1996 novelty hit "Popular" from the record-buying consciousness --...
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys make music in glorious splashes of color. Boppin' rockabilly. Swingin' C&W.; Rockin' hillbilly boogie. Their throwback sound may be '50s-inspired,...
For all the flak that emo bands get for their crybaby angst, they've shrewdly dried their eyes long enough to figure out the one surefire way to survive in today's fickle music...
Houstonian by birth, New Orleanian by choice, skull-faced and sharp-dressed James Hall is the founder of Pleasure Club, purveyors of what a bunch of critics are calling...
Hey, it's homecoming week at Texas Southern University. So that means there will be lot of festivities and fun stuff that, um, will probably happen, um, during that time when...
With the mainstream's full-nelson embrace of pop-punk set to go the way of the economy any day, Tsunami Bomb might be the genre's last remaining band. The Northern California...
After Morphine singer-bassist Mark Sandman's untimely fatal heart attack in 1999, the remaining members -- saxophonist Dana Colley and drummer Billy Conway -- formed the...
