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The United States can represent many things to the world's impoverished, but in late September 1992, this country meant one very basic thing to Omila Foufoune Cesaire: safety....
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The fans who love the Super Furries for their spasmodic mix of neon beats and jittery pop will be disappointed -- a second time, if you count Phantom Planet -- by Love Kraft's...
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That shore is a lot of trash!
SAT 9/17
Hey, you! Yes, we're talking to you, the one who just threw your Big Gulp cup out the window of your truck. And you, the jerk who...
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Once upon a time, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club made the best anti-establishment, unrinsed rock sleaze available -- the perfect complement to a dawn wasted sloppily driving city...
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Crash into the end times
From his early soft-focus self-portraits and pictorials to his later high-contrast landscapes and edgy, natural-form closeups, Edward Weston was a...
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Pieced together by an all-star team of producers (RZA, Raekwon, Mark Ronson) and bolstered by guest vocalists like Missy Elliott, Macy Gray, and fellow Wu-Tang alumni...
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Man, this dude is wacky
WED 9/21
In an age where music is packaged, censored, and commercialized for teenage consumption and MTV popularity, Brian Kenney Fresno is a...
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For the last couple of years Hervé Salters has been the secret weapon of Bay Area hip-hop collective Quannum, supplying vintage keyboard sounds for Blackalicious,...
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In this cut's computer-animated video, a pantless ragga-frog zips across the globe, blurting out "Ding! Ding!" over Harold Faltermeyer's Eighties classic (a.k.a. the theme...
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Before there was Bobby McFerrin, there was George Krantz, whose beat-wise vocal scatting made his "Din Daa Daa" a massive, enduring club hit of the Eighties that's instantly...
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Unlike most of its Brit-rock peers, Franz Ferdinand realizes you need to drop some "You Really Got Me"s before you make a Village Green. The group's disco-Davies sound hasn't...
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Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy has his full shtick in effect here -- mainly the same interjections he makes on all of his songs ("yeeeeeah" and "that's riiiight"). Instead it's...
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Cole is on her third single from her phenomenal debut album, The Way It Is, and she has asserted herself more with each one. "I Should Have Cheated" is a middle finger to...
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With the possible exception of Bob Dylan or Mick Jagger, Sir Paul McCartney remains the ultimate rock idol and the world's most influential living singer/songwriter/musician....
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This gifted Brazilian singer/guitarist takes us on a journey back in time as he draws inspiration from the sounds that came from Bahia in the early Seventies (Gilberto Gil,...
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One can look back on the early Nineties Native Tongues hip-hop movement much like one would regard the Miami Heat roster these days: Y'know, ya got Shaq and Dwyane leading the...
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Negroni's Trio, a local father-son collaboration, delivers a sharp, closely-knit sound that liberally draws from the rich roots of Latin music while keeping an open ear to...
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Turntablism -- the late-Nineties hip-hop subgenre that showcased technical wizardry behind the ones and twos -- was in many ways doomed from the beginning. It was too...
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Not to grandpa it, but it used to be that you had your emotionally distraught singer/songwriters on the left and your carefree electro/techno denizens on the right. Sure,...
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When Sri Lankan MC M.I.A. released her debut album, Arular, earlier this year, she was quickly anointed brightest new star in indie music universe. For better or worse, fans...
