HANNI EL KHATIB
Hanni grew up in San Franscisco, California. The son of Palestinian and Filipino immigrants and the first American in his family, he became obsessed with classic Americana and pop culture of the 1950s and 60s. Influenced by pioneers of early rock and r&b (Johnny Burnette, Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash), El Khatib created a musical aesthetic […]
SPINDRIFT
OCHA LA ROCHA
ACTIVE CHILD
BALAM ACAB
BLACK LIPS
What do you do when you're sixteen and in deep shit? You're looking out at the world from the strip-mall and the detention hall, from the basement and the cul-de-sac and it just looks like there is a wall around you. Everybody tells you and your friends that you're going nowhere, that your lives are […]
RiFF RAFF SODMG
Former MTV reality show contestant-turned-rapper, Riff Raff, apparently landed a record deal last week, inking a deal with Soulja Boy's SODMG imprint. The 20-year-old rap star delivered the news in a simple tweet on Wednesday (June 1), welcoming the Internet rapper to his label. "everybody welcome my newest artist @RiFFRAFF_SODMG to SODMG," Soulja Boy wrote […]
BLACK BANANAS
RTX are splitting into Black Bananas!!! The fruit is ripe and the bread will be FRESH. After three albums under the name RTX, Jennifer Herrema and her bunch decided to flip the script, to kick open the doors of perception a little bit . See, RTX was not Royal Trux, not a metal band,not a […]
DARK DARK DARK
BACK POCKETS
WOWSER BOWSER
"Wowser Bowser is better than N'SYNC, hands down. They hail from Atlanta, GA. There are usually at least three of them on stage. They like balloons and dancing. They dislike candy corn. Yuck. Wowser Bowser plays children's music for adults. Dragon-Pop. Dance-tastic jams. Wanna cookie? How about 500 cookies that you place in your ears?!" […]
ST. VINCENT
Srange Mercy, the beguiling new album from St. Vincent, is an unsparing examination of personal catharsis cloaked in some of the most sublime music of Annie Clark's career. "Many of the songs are about wanting relief from pain, and searching high and low for release," attests Clark. Such powerful emotions prompted ? demanded, really ? […]
WASHED OUT
Within and Without is the debut album by 28 year-old Atlanta-based songwriter and producer Ernest Greene, AKA Washed Out. Long adored and critically lauded in the blog world, Greene first came to prominence in the summer of 2009 after unassumingly posting a handful of bedroom-recorded tracks to his Myspace page from his family home in […]
BLACK DICE
For over fifteen years, the highly influential Black Dice have continuously reinvented and mutated punk music into new sonic stews. The New York based trio of Eric Copeland, Bjorn Copeland, and Aaron Warren have released scores of albums, EPs, and singles on iconic labels (Gravity, 31g,Troubleman, DFA, Paw Tracks), that document their musical travels, from […]
PENGUIN PRISON
CLASS ACTRESS
PIERCED ARROWS
After the demise of underground legends DEAD MOON in fall 2006, nobody was surprised to hear that founders Fred and Toody Cole had lost little time in starting a new band. They recruited drummer Kelly Halliburton in April 2007, and soon the PIERCED ARROWS were up and running, playing live shows in the Northwest and […]
LYONNAIS
Want for Wish for Nowhere is Lyonnais ' LP debut and above all else captures the group's dark and mesmerizing live presence. Recorded and produced entirely by the band themselves, the songs' deft interweaving of the crystalline and the murky have been fine-tuned since the group's beginnings into a singular aesthetic redolent of their psych-drone […]
REGGIE WATTS
ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE UNTIL 7:30 PM WED. MAY 23. AFTER THAT TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT PLAZA THEATRE BOX OFFICE @ 8PM Reggie Watts, internationally renowned vocalist/ beatboxer/ musician/ comedian/ improvisor, wows audiences with his unpredictable performances which are created on-the-spot using only his formidable voice and looping pedals. Blending and blurring the lines between […]
MUNICIPAL WASTE
Born in the sewers of Richmond, Virginia during 2000, with the aim of spreading the shred, Municipal Waste played their first gig at a Richmond New Year's Eve Keg party in 2000/2001. Blamed for inciting a small riot, Brendan Trache, Andy Harris, Tony Foresta and Ryan Waste went down a storm. As a result, the […]
HORNA (finnish black metal)
Horna formed in late 1993 under the name Shadowed, formed by vocalist and guitarist Shatraug and guitarist Moredhel. The name was changed to Horna when drummer Gorthaur joined the band in 1994. Horna did not start recording until early 1995. The first demo, Varjoissa, was released in September that year and sold out. In 1996, […]
DETHLEHEM
DETHLEHEM formed in the greatest respect to the centuries old story of the Three-Wise-Demons. The story takes place long ago before the first cataclysm, in the well known village of Dethlehem, in the land of Ghorusalem. The Ghorusalem Codex, Volume I: Enthroned Upon A Spire -- A goblin baby with great, evil powers was born […]
BASS DRUM OF DEATH
DZ DEATHRAYS
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN are a psychedelic noh-wave opera group fusing noise, metal, pop and folk music into a multidisciplinary hyper-orientalist cesspool of 'eastern' culture in giant monochrome paper sets. Blending Noh, Peking Opera, Buddhist Ritual Punk, Taiko Shows, Tokusatsu, Performance Art, Rock Opera & their own mangaesque cardboard 'NEVERFLAT' style of 2.5D set design, […]