Vortex is the third CD release from jazz saxophonist Kenny Shanker on the Wise Cat record label. The New York City-based performer rotates between alto and...
Book Review It is sometimes difficult to place popular musicians in a larger cultural context, and this was not the goal of Marc Eliot’s The Hag,...
Considering all the systematic imbalances within our culture it surely isn’t much of a stretch relating to that great philosopher Randy Newman when he spits out...
Pawns: Not for the Ordinary is the most recent CD from 24-year-old Philadelphia pianist/composer Micah Graves. All eight of the original tracks (except the track “When...
I’d only been in San Diego about a week. It was September and it was hot. My uncle Tony called them Santa Ana winds. They sure...
BACKGROUND Getting signed to a record label is (and has been) the proverbial dream for many aspiring recording artists. However, what does the term “signed” mean?...
“I wanted to do something different.” With those words musician Tom Griesgraber describes his instrument, his music… And, for that matter, Tom Griesgraber describes his life....
Little else gets the blood pumping than the pulverizing rhythm of big band swing. Arms twitch, hands beat a tempo on tabletops, feet tap then turn...
The ghost of Townes Van Zandt pursues this San Diego singer-songwriter from a childhood immersed in music and travel, to hard-core punk, power-punk, noir, alt country-rock,...
