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First Listen: Los Lobos, `Tin Can Trust` (07/26/2010)
The band`s latest album speaks to the experience of growing up American with Mexican roots. Inspired by the blues, rock `n` roll and the American Southwest, David Hidalgo and Louie Perez are an advent...
Best Coast: A Surf-Rock Revival With `Crazy For You` (07/26/2010)
In recent years, there`s been a resurgence of sun-baked rock, and Best Coast is now at its forefront. The duo of singer-songwriter Bethany Cosentino and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno, Best Coast pl...
Joan Armatrading: A `Charming Life,` Stripped Bare (07/25/2010)
In a career spanning more than 40 years, the singer-songwriter has delved into genres such as pop, rock, folk, jazz and reggae. Her latest album leans toward alt-rock and features Armatrading playing ...
Around The Jazz Internet: July 23, 2010 (07/24/2010)
News and notes from around the web, including Jimmy Heath`s autobiography, Maria the prog-rocker, the art behind Winter and Winter and Screwgun Records, Chopin-jazz without pianos, Gangsterism on CNN ...
Carney On World Cafe (07/22/2010)
This Los Angeles blues-rock band is led by Reeve Carney, the future star of U2`s Broadway interpretation of Spider-Man. Yes, you read that correctly. Before hitting the theater district, his band stop...
Tame Impala On `World Cafe: Next` (07/20/2010)
The Australian psychedelic rock band generates a free-flowing, fuzzed-out groove on its debut full-length, Innerspeaker. Listen to two of the album`s tracks on World Cafe: Next.
With Ticket Sales Down, Live Nation Faces Its Investors (07/17/2010)
On Thursday, hundreds of investors packed into a New York rock club to watch a presentation on Live Nation`s financial condition. The company`s ticket sales fell 9 percent in 2010, but CEO Michael Rap...
Broken Social Scene On World Cafe (07/16/2010)
After a couple of Broken Social Scene Presents.. solo records, the long running Canadian band returns with a collective, collaborative effort in Forgiveness Rock Record. Hear an interview with founder...
Marc-Andre Hamelin: Sonatas By The Seashore (07/15/2010)
From the gorgeous new music hall overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, hear the courageous pianist make finger-scorching music by Liszt and Berg sound easy as pie at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in M...
A Jazz Family That Rocks Out: The Justin Time And Secret City Interview, Pt. 2 (07/15/2010)
An esteemed jazz record company and a hot new rock label were started by a Montreal father and son, respectively. But for Jim and Justin West, good music is more than just the family business. Read an...
Free Energy On World Cafe (07/15/2010)
Formed in 2008, the Philadelphia band has just released its debut full-length, Stuck on Nothing. Mentored by LCD Soundsystem`s James Murphy, the band offers a fun, fresh take on a traditionalist rock ...
Weezer (07/14/2010)
The genius of Rivers Cuomo isn`t really in his catchy melodies—plenty of people can do that. No, the real trick is in his decision to paint around them with superfluous crunchy guitars, even thou...
`Rocks Off Concert Cruises Presents Electric Six` (07/14/2010)
Is there anything more quintessential to summertime indie rock than a wasted night aboard a Rocks Off Cruise? Tonight, match your seafaring drunkenness with the ecstatic camp of Detroit electro-rocker...
Bill Kirchen: The King Of Dieselbilly`s `Word To The Wise` (07/12/2010)
The singer-guitarist`s music has been classified as truck-driving music, but it draws from a variety of genres: rock `n` roll, Americana, country and rockabilly. On his latest album, Kirchen is joined...
Ramzi`s Story: Laying Down Stones, Picking Up Instruments (07/10/2010)
In 1988, a photographer in the West Bank snapped a photo of Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a scrawny 8-year-old with tears in his eyes, hurling a rock at an Israeli tank. The photo symbolized the rage and f...
The Amygdaloids Mix Neuroscience And Rock `N` Roll (07/10/2010)
A group of New York University neuroscientists leads an unlikely double life -- as rockers. The songs on their new album, Theory of My Mind, are based on the members` research. The musicians play sele...
Ike Reilly On World Cafe (07/09/2010)
Gritty and hard-driving, The Ike Reilly Assassination has built a reputation on lyrically witty and subtly twangy rock `n` roll. Reilly`s new album is titled Hard Luck Stories; listen as he performs s...
Second Stage: MiniBoone (07/07/2010)
The Brooklyn based rock band, MiniBoone, has an uninhibited love for fun and fast music. Their EP Big Changes is joyous power-pop with unpredictable twists and turns. You might want to strap yourself ...
You Say It`s Your Birthday? Help Ringo Starr Celebrate When He Turns 70 (07/07/2010)
On Wednesday, the renowned rock `n` roll drummer is continuing a tradition of asking fans to say the words Peace and love on his birthday. (You`ve got plenty of online options, too, if you need to pre...
No-Cover Mondays: LA`s Rock Residency Scene (07/07/2010)
Rock residencies are part of a national trend of club managers turning over the slowest night of the week to an up-and-coming band for a solid month. Club owners have nothing to lose -- and the bands ...
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