Nick Drake

Weekend's best live bets: Signal Path, Mancub, Rockie, Best Coast, Jolie Holland and more

Ah, yes, welcome to the weekend! Been a long week, and now you're about to get to enjoy a long weekend. As always, a plethora of enticing options this weekend and it's another good mix: Tonight, a trio of local release parties featuring Signal Path, Mancub and Rockie kick things into gear, along wit ... More >>

Review: Lucinda Williams at the Paramount Theatre, 11/12/11

​LUCINDA WILLIAMS at PARAMOUNT | 11/12/11About a halfway through Lucinda Williams' two-hour set on Saturday night, it felt somebody hit a switch at the Paramount Theatre and all the sudden the place was electrified. For the first hour, the crowd of mostly middle-aged folks sat fairly complacen ... More >>

Emil Amos of Holy Sons on stint in Jandek, Lee Hazelwood and J. Mascis

Eliza SohnEmil Amos of Holy Sons​ Emil Amos is part experimental rock musician and part philosopher poet. Amos is a champion of stripping away the layers of conditioning we accept as payment for being part of a mainstream society that demands obedience to arbitrary rules of identity and what ... More >>

Away We Go

Eliza SohnEmil Amos of Holy Sons​ Emil Amos is part experimental rock musician and part philosopher poet. Amos is a champion of stripping away the layers of conditioning we accept as payment for being part of a mainstream society that demands obedience to arbitrary rules of identity and what ... More >>

Garden State of Emergency: Zach Braff could doom Obama campaign

Eliza SohnEmil Amos of Holy Sons​ Emil Amos is part experimental rock musician and part philosopher poet. Amos is a champion of stripping away the layers of conditioning we accept as payment for being part of a mainstream society that demands obedience to arbitrary rules of identity and what ... More >>

Ten Reasons Ween's Better Than Your Favorite Band

Eliza SohnEmil Amos of Holy Sons​ Emil Amos is part experimental rock musician and part philosopher poet. Amos is a champion of stripping away the layers of conditioning we accept as payment for being part of a mainstream society that demands obedience to arbitrary rules of identity and what ... More >>

Westword Music Showcase 2006

Be there or be square!

Nationalistic 2005

The rest of the planet generated some good CDs this year, too.

Westword Music Showcase 2005

The rest of the planet generated some good CDs this year, too.

The Bright Stuff

Bright Channel's astral exploration finally takes off.

Heavy Soul

Paul Weller, the mod heavyweight champion of the world, weighs in with Illumination.

Whisper to Scream

From punk to folk, poetry to prose, Patrick Porter is a voice of unease.

Mother of Invention

Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval warms up to a new project.

Dive In

The sultry Brit-poppers of Cousteau go deep.

Little Boy Blue

Conor Oberst sees the world through Bright Eyes.

Getting in Tune

Former Archers of Loaf frontman Eric Bachmann exchanges indie cred for songcraft.

Eric Gaffney

Brilliant Concert Numbers

(Old Gold Records)

Cleared for Takeover

Backwash gets caught up in merger mania!

Below Freezing

Edith Frost creates music that fits the season perfectly.

Name That Style

Do the members of Morcheeba make trip-hop? No--they make music.

Seeing Red

Red House Painter Mark Kozelek wants you to know that he isn't suicidal.

Dinosaur Johnson

On his own, Mike Johnson sounds nothing like his main band, Dinosaur Jr.

Just Deserts

Neil Halstead on the moody, desolate sound of Mojave 3.

LO NO MORE

SEBADOH'S LOU BARLOW GOES BEYOND LO-FI.