Haale
Influenced almost equally by mystic poets and American rock and psychedelic music, Haale's full-length debut, No Ceiling, isn't quite inner-directed "trance" music, but it...
Andy Friedman
Singer-songwriter Andy Friedman complains on the first track off his new album, Weary Things, that he misses being broken, lowdown, and alone. By the...
Rickie Lee Jones
For her first new collection of original material in almost four years, the quixotic melody-making virtuoso Rickie Lee Jones doesn’t need a personal savior...
John Zaskoda
John Zaskoda is a staunch believer in grassroots music. The former lead guitarist for local singer-songwriter Scott Copeland and local band The Merchants opened...
Chatterton
Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
Chatterton’s first commercial release, a self-titled e.p., is testimony to that old adage right out the gate.
The first...
Pretty Girls Make Graves
“Pop!” goes the hot Seattle-raised quintet Pretty Girls Make Graves, and their fans seem pretty divided. PGMG always resembled a more canny, if less...
Various Artists
Taking its name from revolutionary rebels in Nicaragua, Sandinista!, The Clash’s groundbreaking album from 1980, is “an exciting, sprawling mess,” according to writer Jimmy...
Big Red Ants’ Last Year’s Big Fall
Big Red Ants
Last Year’s Big Fall
Big Red Ants’ debut album, Last Year’s Big Fall, is a 10-song collection of catchy alt-rock tunes. Occasionally, the...
Betty Harris
Betty Harris is back.
On her first recording in nearly 40 years - Intuition, her funky, New Orleans-style, traditional R&B and soul solo debut -...
John-Alex Mason
For more than one generation of fans, the blues "belonged" to old black men with slurred voices.
White fans who cared at all celebrated the...
