Rob Trucks

Given that the Breeders release records less often than February 29 appears on your kitchen calendar (last month's Mountain Battles makes just four albums in the past eighteen years), guitarist Kelley Deal might be better known for playing colleague and caretaker to her twin sister, Pixies bassist and Breeders leader...

For all intents and purposes, Sparklehorse is Mark Linkous. And yet, despite a welcome move to a western North Carolina mountaintop and noteworthy assists from Tom Waits, Danger Mouse and the Flaming Lips' Steven Drozd, his latest release, Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (full of...

If one-tenth of the what-a-wingnut tales are true, Rivers Cuomo is guaranteed a conviction in the court of strange rock-star behavior. He has practiced so much self-imposed isolationism (including a well-publicized two-year diet of celibacy) that you could name a desert island after the guy. Witness his abandonment of rock...