A '90s underground It-Band makes peace
Res had it pretty good, for a while. A little more than a decade ago, when the music industry was still flush with cash and power, the Philadelphia-born singer-songwriter (whose given name is Shareese Ballard; her stage name is pronounced "Reese") had a sweet deal with MCA Records. She had a crash ... More >>
Lee Ranaldo Glasslands Gallery Saturday, December 17 Better than: Another '90s band playing a '90s album start to finish. There wasn't a whole lot of noise from Lee Ranaldo's new quartet under the cloth clouds at Glasslands on Saturday, but there was plenty of crunch. Removing the art ab ... More >>
White Zombie had rules. One: no solo albums under their own names. So Sean Yseult -- the bassist in the NYC punk-metal monolith, led by growling frontman Rob Zombie, that slowly evolved from mid-'80s CBGBs punks to the '90s alterna-metal titans of "Thunder Kiss '65" and "More Human Than Human ... More >>
Thurston Moore goes folk, exploits Starbucks, and walks his dog, Merzbow
On the endlessly inventive and increasingly mishandled career of Mos Def
How the Miramax of Music Soundbombed
Easy, Senators! Theres enough money for everybody.
Kick-starting a new literary scene on the lower east side
