Artist Profile: Atari Blitzkrieg is Hip-Hop’s Cheshire Cat

Atari Blitzkrieg is putting out a full-length record. Why this is amazing is that it comes after the self-release of ten, count ’em – TEN E.P.s. That is a lot of practice and market-testing. You can feel it when you first encounter his wicked laid-back ciphers – there is something immediately centered, […] […]

Live Review: Leonard Cohen at the Nokia Theatre, April 11

A review of Leonard Cohen’s April 11 live performance at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. […]

Artist Profile: Sage Redman – Might Be The Coolest 16 Year Old In Indie Music

When I was a kid, I worked my shit out by skulking down to the basement in my parents’ house and banging away for hours at the piano we inherited from my grandfather. Every so often I could sense a presence come down the stairs behind me and just settle in while I perambulated across […] […]

MusicZeitgeist.com Presents: Western Civ – April 2009 Indie Artist of the Month

Hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Western Civ, comprising bassist Jason Briggs, drummer Bryan Cabler and lead vocalist Rich Henderson, originally were all members of the same small-town Alabama high school class, and have been making music together with virtually no interruption for well over a decade. […]