Interview: Anders Trentemøller

Danish musician Anders Trentemøller‘s got the magic musical touch. His debut LP, 2006’s the Last Resort included a variety of electronic instrumental (mostly) scorchers, including “Evil Dub,” “Always Something Better,” “Nightwalker,” “Chameleon” and “Into the Trees.” Last year Trentemøller changed a key tactic by adding vocalists to several tracks on his follow up, Into the […]

Show Review & Photos: The Joy Formidable & The Lonely Forest @ The Crocodile

Tuesday nights, in general, are tough nights to get a crowd into a venue to see some live music. After all, most people have work or school on Wednesday morning, and Tuesday just isn’t close enough to Friday to call in sick. So when you have a couple of up-and-coming bands from fairly obscure places […]

Interview & Show Preview: Mike Watt @ the Triple Door, Wed. 4/27

Mike Watt‘s on his third opera. Watt’s first two were 1997’s Contemplating the Engine Room and 2004’s The Secondman’s Middle Stand, and for opera number three, Hyphenated-Man, he drew inspiration from paintings. In order to understand the titles and concept of each song on Hyphenated-Man, you might want to have a look at the Hieronymous […]

Photos: Deftones & the Dillinger Escape Plan @ the Paramount

On Thursday, April 14th Deftones and the Dillinger Escape Plan played live and loud at the Paramount – along with an awesome digital owl backdrop and major attack strobes in their respective sets. These are a couple forceful bands, and I was just a little terrified taking photos of the Dillinger Escape Plan. They know […]