LIVE REVIEW: Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s, The Echo, May 24

King Richard: Richard Edwards of Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s photo by the author It was just a few years ago that Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s performed at Spaceland to a partially filled room with an even smaller attentive audience. Perhaps it was weariness from their dogged touring schedule, but though emphatically […] […]

Top Ten Spins for Week of May 19th, 2008

Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s – Album: The Dust of Retreat Mudcrutch – “Orphan of the Storm” – Album: Mudcrutch Hercules And Love Affair – Album: Hercules And Love Affair Erykah Badu – Album: New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) HEALTH – Album: DISCO Crystal Stilts – ““Crippled Croon”” – Album: Crystal Stilts Cheveu – Album: […] […]

Artist Profile: Mamadou and Vanessa

(Music Zeitgeist) Who? Master kamale ngoni player, Mamadou Sidibe is from the Wassoulou Region of Mali, West Africa. Twenty-five years ago Mamadou played a groundbreaking role in transforming the music of this region from its origins in hunters’ sacred melodies; played on six string donso ngoni (hunter’s harps) to a music of philosophical observations, politics and […] […]

Artist Profile: Crocodile

Dear Mr./Ms. band named Crocodile: You don’t know me, and I don’t know you – I am not a stalker, but I am really a fan of your music. It reminds me of when I was a teenager and it was the beginning of the 90’s and I listened to the Vaselines (who are […] […]