Artist Profile: KeyDragon

KeyDragon arises with a new collection of songs that evoke a spectrum of parallels – everything from Cocteau Twins, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Necrocock, GWAR and His Name Is Alive. But it is as fresh and unique in its own right for the commitment to its own dimension that its members lend […] […]

Artist Profile: Quinn Deveaux

Every so often something comes across my desk that not only causes me to pick my jaw off the floor, but reminds why I began this effort. I don’t know Quinn Deveaux, but something inside of me implicitly resonates with what he is doing. This is one of those rare artists that reminds us that […] […]

Artist Profile: Harlan Mark Vale

At times evoking Ryuchi Sakamoto, experimental John Cale, instrumental David Sylvian, or *gasp* George Benson, Harlan Mark Vale’s music summons delicate things in the imagination – a water spider skating across the surface of a lake, a meditative gaze beneath a willow tree. But there is something edgy about his work that keeps it in […] […]

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 […] […]