The fedora-capped, suit-wearing character whose image graces R. Scott's CD Snake Oil Elixirdidn't prepare me for the clean-cut citizen whom I met... More >>

Kristine Thune of the Hermione Crookshanks Experience knows that right now is a pretty good time to play wizard rock. The Hermione Crookshanks... More >>

While I believe we must not erect monuments to our own credulity, in my childhood, it was possible for preteen and even teenage mall people to... More >>

Play Queens of the Stone Age's new album, Era Vulgaris, and bask in a manic, methodical, robotic orgy, conjuring everything from fuzzy... More >>

In keeping with the rock & roll cliché, heavy-metal karaoke band KNAC/DC are all about the lead singer. The quartet-plus-one (MC Danny Derany k... More >>

What do you do when the local music scene starts to lose its luster? When the lineups no longer give you the auditory thrill they once did?... More >>

Indie hip-hop-meets-jazz-'n'-psych outfit Free the Robots was a fake band, but now it's a real one. Also, Free the Robots was always a... More >>

Intensity—it's one thing rarely lacking in albums by UNKLE, the collaborative umbrella helmed by Mo' Wax founder and now Surrender All... More >>

Stones Throw Records has built quite the legacy in its 10 years of existence. It's where you go to find fat beats that don't pander to the pap... More >>

After 9/11, pundits proclaimed that the age of irony in America was dead. How could disaffected cynicism survive in a culture that had suffered... More >>