Vee Hua 華婷婷Sally Tomato’s rock opera, Toy Room, arrived with a cover that boasted of four acts and ten accumulated laurels from the 2009 festival circuit. I pretty much always watch rock operas with hesitation, for their qualities are largely determined...
A festival that manages to bring in quality folk, bluegrass, alt-country, and indie rock bands without feeling blown-out, over-run, and over-saturated. dr. dog Dr. Dog seem to be constantly, eternally on tour, and their spirited jams are easy pop...
"Nothing holds up a process like an indispensable band member being both a perfectionist and a control freak. Especially when your band features three of these types." -- Danny Seim
The first two tracks off The Harvey Girls’ new album, I’ve Been Watching A Lot Of Horror Movies Lately, exemplify what the band does best. A horde of subtle manipulations, unusual samples, and simplistic looped guitar lines greet the...
Who knew that crappy, pixely neon overlays could be so entertaining?
This video is like a modern take on Oregon Trail or something, complete with frame-by-frame side-scrolling! A fantastic video for “The Body Without Any Eyes”, off of the husband-wife duo’s album, I’ve Been Watching A Lot Of...
Stuart AisbittIf Destroyer Of The Void, Blitzen Trapper’s fifth full-length album, is your first encounter with them, you will likely be intrigued by their uncanny homage to musical tradition and their inflection of strangeness within the seemingly familiar...
This SxSW, FIVE REDEFINE staff members were on hand, rendering it the biggest SxSW for REDEFINE yet. And because three of us definitely attended many a show together, my top five list definitely shares some commonalities with Tim Vordtriede’s...