Jessica Lure Ensemble
Seattle's all-woman Tiptons Sax Quartet was originally called the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet in honor of the big-band musician who lived as a...
Snowbyrd
Loyalty to home and love for departed friends are themes that resonate at my house, which is what motivated me to repeatedly spin this...
LSD March
Under Milk Wood (Important Records)
By Ken Shimamoto
Formed in 1996 in Himeji, Japan, and named after a song by '70s German psych-rockers Guru Guru, LSD...
Sawed Off Sick
For a band that describes its origins as "from the depths of hell," Dallas psychobilly outfit Sawed Off Sick writes some surprisingly singable and...
Sebastian Bach
Surviving hair-metal musicians seem to fall into three different categories.
There are the guys (and metal is almost uniformly a male preserve) who reunite every...
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...
Sam Bush
The difference between bluegrass and newgrass is kinda like the difference between rockabilly and early rock ’n’ roll: The latter, at its best, draws...
The Chemistry Set
With ample support from Josh Hoover, Cory Helms, Meredith Knoll, and a cast of thousands drawn from a deep pool of Golden Triangle musicians,...
Fair to Midland
During the first notes of “Dance of the Manatee,” the opening track on Fair to Midland’s new disc, Fables from a Mayfly: What I...
Blood of the Sun
Blood of the Sun is a new local band, built from the spare parts of Sourvein, Storm at Sunrise, Rotting Corpse, and a couple...
