Mike Cuccaro brings you a different view of the Atlantis Conference, including reviews of Myssouri, Lift, Metroscene, Audra & the Antidote, Kenny Howes & the Yeah!, Star Room Boys, Ex-Husbands, and Two Dollar Pistols.

It merely takes a frequent Toys-R-Us shopper to fiddle around with a random a…

Soya Wingnut! (Ink 19, October 2000)

Yeah, there’s a million punk bands in southern California, but Strung Out have a little more to offer than the same old three-chord crunch. Liza Hearon talks with singer Jason Cruz.

Solus is a disc of solo piano improvisations by Ernesto Diaz-Infante, …

The Acid Lounge is just as it sounds; an hour of trippy, jazzy sounds …

Out west in Tucson, Arizona in an area of town known as the Barrio Viejo, thr…

A lot of people think of ska as a recent Jamaican musical phenomenon, somethi…

Woody Guthrie always thought that songs could – indeed, should – touch peop…

Drummer Joey Baron has recorded with folks as divergent as Laurie Anderson an…

An unusual collection of musical styles and sounds, all bound by their respec…

Cali Agents combines the best elements of West Coast independent hip-hoppers …

I’ve seen (Mr.) Quintron twice over the last two years and, evangelizing leis…

Before I listened to this album, I was expecting nothing more than a collecti…

Each single track on this EP is better than most bands’ entire album. The fi…

Kenny Roby, former leader of the oft-missed 6 String Drag, strikes an easy ba…

Hailing from Richmond, VA, Strike Anywhere carry with them a lot of the same …

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Lush and swerving rock and roll, with guitar straining moments that sometimes…

Hurrah is Versus’ first full-length on their new label, Merge Records….