Live Review: The Cure, Shrine Auditorium, June 1

I had a girlfriend once, P_______, whose favorite band was The Cure. She listened to them incessantly in her car and on her little boombox, finding in them the perfect soundtrack for everything from getting groceries and doing pilates to cleaning the bathroom and yes – having a good cry by candlelight. She also used […] […]

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 […] […]