Following the opus that was The Soft Bulletin, and the charismatic light of Yoshime is no small task, but At War With The Mystics is another explosive studio effort that comes in a close third.
Just who is Gnarls Barkley anyway? The play on the former burly Sixers and Suns forward is actually a collaboration between the acclaimed Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo from Goodie Mob. Whether you knew that or not, you
On their ninth album, Stadium Arcadium, the SoCal former tube sock models, with the help of producer Rick Rubin, give us 28 new songs. Yeah, it
With Coachella happening just 260 miles to the west, and the New Orleans jazz fest reviving the bayou, The McDowell Mountain Music wasn
On A Blessing and a Curse, their fourth album in five years. This time around Patterson Hood & Co. gel their stories to become north of the Mason Dixon line friendly, as the images of tornadoes and bad luck gone bad vanish.
Once again on the heels of another hot summer, we get the second release from everyone
Since 2001, Particle’s rise to success has been meteoric compared to other contemporaries in their scene. Sure they weren’t opening for the Stones at MSG, but in between festival spots at Bonnaroo, Coachella and Austin City Limits, and selling out venues coast to coast, Particle was a rare success with limited record sales. So to most fans on the outside, it came as a surprise when the band broke ties with longtime guitarist Charlie Hitchcock this past autumn. The split is still very much a ‘he said, he said’ mystery, but regardless of who was right or wrong, at the end of he day, one thing is for certain…it definitely didn’t end well.
For the better part of ten years, Calexico has sounded like no other experimental rock outfit. Where else can you hear mariachi singers, marimbas and happy trumpets with shades of highway Americana? Recently reaching the Billboard 200 album chart with their 2005 In the Reins collaboration with Iron & Wine, Calexico
Side projects have become a hit or miss avenue. For every novel Postal Service, there is an over-hyped Velvet Revolver with the whole
