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...
The Dangits
I’d resigned myself to the fact that nobody around the Metromess plays real, unhyphenated rock ’n’ roll anymore — you know, that blues-based music...
Confusatron
Funk? Check. Jazz? Check. The kitchen sink? Check.
Confusatron does a lot of everything and amazingly well. In most tunes, the eight-piece ferociously bites downbeats,...
Bob Margolin
As with most blues, feel and sound matter more than lyrics. The words don’t always matter because the emotion in every real blues song...
James McMurtry
Fort Worth-born James McMurtry continues to display a wickedly sharp sense of right and wrong on his new Just Us Kids.
One of the songs,...
Corrine West
Corrine West quit school and left her California home when she was 15 to travel with nomadic artists in a converted school bus, looking...
Various artists
As any good soundtrack should, Honeydripper helps bring the movie to life by creating, along with the scenery and the actors, the atmosphere that...
Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Multitalented artist Will Oldham has kept busy over the past couple of years.
He’s acted in critically acclaimed films, including last year’s Junebug and...
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,...
