No Business, Negativland's 25-year audiocollage project, soldiers on. Sure, it's familiar now--they're cutting up the music industry's words and putting them back together, going after file-sharing hypocrisy this time--but no one is capable of more subversion on a
For those who knew the wacky shirts were actually a comedian's armor. For those with an answering machine message that said "Hi dee ho!" For those who've ever been lost out there and all alone. Excerpts from the forthcoming Dave Coulier fan fiction anthology.
In which the saga is revealed that bred Gary Benchley; inspired a circus of half-loving, half-betrayed fans; landed a book deal; and even--truly--forced a trip to the hospital after Benchley almost gave his author a heart attack.
Imagine every Haruki Murakami novel came with its own bar pianist--that's Solo Piano by Gonzales (the Paris-based producer of Feist, Manu Chao, many others). Unfortunately only an import for now, it's a beautifully spare collection of piano melodies, part Gershwin, part Lizst, part missing
I will forever remember The Like as the band that rocked so hard it made me stop caring about Liz Phair's downturn. Their new album, Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?, has swooping, ethereal vocals, guitars that crash and swirl, and bass lines that make your
If it's not careful, Ratatat the band (otherwise known as Evan Mast and Mike Stroud) may find suddenly find out it's Ratatat, the star production team. With their dizzying "Big Slippa" remix of the Shout Out Louds' "The Comeback," the pair
I have a problem with solo female pop singers with terrific voices--I cannot get enough, never, no way. Rebecca Gates, Feist, Brandy, Beth Orton, Alison Krauss, all have kept me company in the last couple years, and now I find Maria Taylor, who sounds a bit like Jenny Lewis
Chad VanGaalen's Infiniheart is a collection of home-recorded songs that was first put out by Calgary-based micro-label Flemish Eye. The album's earned comparisons to everything from the Flaming Lips to Cat Power to Neil Young, but saying it sounds like anything you'
For 30 years John Zorn has been influencing the downtown music culture, and with the opening of his new venue he's doing something few club owners would think--or want--to do: Making music to make music, not money.
Only once Roxy Music went on hiatus in 1976 did guitar virtuoso Phil Manzanera finally find the time to recruit a cavalcade of musicians and record Listen/Now, his second solo album. Manzanera's guitar playing here is more eloquent than most vocalists' lyrics, and on "Island&
