Not to be confused with any wayward offspring of the 2000 presidential election's legitimate winner, Detroit's Gore Gore Girls hearken back to an... More >>
Don Vappie has been a bit hyperbolically called the Jimi Hendrix of the banjo. The latest in a long, ancestral line of New Orleans jazz musicians... More >>
Nick Lowe is a dynamic force who's been gusting through popular music, albeit in an often understated way, for 30-odd years. He was a pub-rock... More >>
Although Metric, the Canadian new-wavoid quartet that is rapidly becoming an industry unto itself, has no new studio material on the shelves, the... More >>
The 2007 invasion of bands from the myth-shrouded realm on the northern rim of Europe promises yet another ear-opening romp among sounds as exotic... More >>
She's inspired comparisons to Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Bonnie Raitt, but guitarist, singer, and songwriter Ana Popovic's blues come... More >>
Argentinian accordion is usually synonymous with tango, but not in the case of accordion ace Chango Spasiuk. He hails from rural, northeastern... More >>
A brilliantly twisted songwriter whose brutal honesty is more like a 2x4 to the forehead than a rapier thrust between the ribs, Loudon Wainwright... More >>
Ignited by a blaze of funky horns, a complexity of rhythms zeroing in from the hottest corners of the globe, and a cascade of rapid-fire lyrics... More >>
J.D. Wilkes writes Southern gothic tales drenched in cinematic blood and guts. The head Shaker's songs are populated with maniacal holy-roller... More >>
Guitarist John McLaughlin was an innovator in rock-jazz fusion and exploring world music, first with the likes of Graham Bond and Brian Auger in... More >>
Of joint French-Benin heritage, Mina Agossi started as a casual blues singer but quickly discovered jazz and her quirky but engaging approach to... More >>
If you like weird-as-hell, entirely twisted takes on rootsy stuff originally planted behind the cesspool somewhere in Appalachia, then this is the... More >>
A writer of vivid, highly detailed songs most often about grim goings-on on the dark side of town, Eliza Gilkyson tackles ugly subjects like... More >>
The Latvian folk ensemble Ilgi has been around since the beginnings of the Baltic folk revival of the early 1980s, when the Soviet Union was still... More >>
When someone dies way too prematurely, as Bob Feldman did in January 2006, the tendency is to heap praise on the deceased regardless of the true... More >>
A vibrant force in jazz since he took over the trumpet chair from Wynton Marsalis in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the early '80s, Terence... More >>
Ben Harper's been nothing if not eclectic during his career, often pursuing a funky acoustic vibe but also rocking out and reflecting influences... More >>
