King Crimson

From the Stacks: DJ Shorty's Faves

Overnight Express: In Case You're Not Sick of Me Going on About Tom Petty...

The Good with the Badfinger

A Houston producer pays loving tribute to an enduring -- if cursed -- band

Sunday Sunday Sunday: Zechs Marquise at the Mink

A natural talent for psychedelia must be as common as Y chromosomes in the Rodriguez-Lopez family DNA. That gene pool has produced a trio of rockers - Omar, Marcel and Marfred - that has proved its mastery of the genre in more than one incarnation. The most notable, of course, is Omar, co-masterm ... More >>

Fat Chance

Call it integrity or call it stubbornness, but the Joint Chiefs won't slim down their bursting-at-the-seams jazz/grunge/funk act

Decay Becomes Him

Ex-Chili Pepper John Frusciante sleepwalks through a rock and roll nightmare

Out of the Swamp

Ex-Chili Pepper John Frusciante sleepwalks through a rock and roll nightmare

Sparking Interest

David Rice finally throws the switch on greenelectric

Tonight: California Guitar Trio at McGonigel's Mucky Duck

Simone Cechetti/ cgtrio.comCreated in 1991 after taking part in Robert Fripp's League of Crafty Guitarists, the trio formed by Paul Richards, Bert Lams and Hideyo Moriya forms a rare musical partnership that reaches across various genres without any form of prejudice. During the trio's live se ... More >>

Kelly Hansen Joins "Hot Blooded" Rockers Foreigner

Head games

Yakety Yak

Sara Hickman makes her audience part of the show

David Rice

A songsmith picks up the pieces and returns to Houston in triumph

Got Milk?

A songsmith picks up the pieces and returns to Houston in triumph

King Crimson's Heir

A songsmith picks up the pieces and returns to Houston in triumph

RIP, Syd. And RIP, 'Cid.

A psychedelic pioneer and the drug that helped do him in are both sorely missed

Double Ax

Eric Johnson and Adrian Belew fret for you at Club V

Dirty Projectors

The Getty Address

The Mars Volta

Frances the Mute

An ABBA to Zebra of Guilty Pleasures

Music figures tell all abou their most shameful faves

The Class of '03

Grab your gift certificates and trade in your white elephants -- here's what you really wanted for Christmas

Here's Mud in Your Ear

Repeat after us: The Dirtbombs are not a garage rock band

Lost in Space

Meet the new radio, XM. It's big. It's bad. It's nationwide.

Playbill

California Guitar Trio with Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto

International Festival

California Guitar Trio with Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto

Prog's New Face

Deadwood Forest isn't your father's progressive rock band

Rotation

Deadwood Forest isn't your father's progressive rock band

Get Lit: I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto by Dave Thompson

If productivity alone conferred greatness, then flinty rock scribbler Dave Thompson would be the Trollope of pop-culture quick reads. I Hate New Music is the latest of over 100 titles this insta-book wizard has blinked into being. And dig the intro penned by the legendary Richard Meltzer, the Big Ba ... More >>

Get Lit: Bill Bruford: The Autobiography by Bill Bruford

As the "godfather of progressive rock drumming," Bill Bruford has done stints on the road and in the studio with many of the genre's biggest bands. He was a founding member of Yes, spent years with King Crimson, and also thumped skins for Genesis, Gong, and U.K. before forming his own groups and the ... More >>

Remembering 1969, Part 3: The Beginning of the End for the Beatles

Note: see Part 1 here and Part 2 here. For most of 1969, the Beatles were pretty much comatose - after the disastrous Get Back sessions (which would later spawn the Phil Spector-produced Let It Be), they reconvened to the studio that spring to record the music for what would become their final reco ... More >>

Edge Of Twilight: The Secret History Of Forgotten UK Proggers Gentle Giant

​ Who Dat? Ah yes, the '70s, fertile ground for prog-rockers of mostly English descent like Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, Jethro Tull and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. But a cult has grown around the (many would say) even more complex and experimental Gentle Giant - a quintet that, among them, could pla ... More >>

Kanye West's New Toy: Twitter

​If there was any other pop-culture wonder in need of a worldwide soapbox to spout off from it was Kanye West. Yesterday sweet dreams became a beautiful nightmare when West got his own verified Twitter account, @kanyewest. Little wonder this comes right before the run-up of publicity for his n ... More >>

Last Night: Blitzen Trapper At House Of Blues

Photos by Jason Wolter​Blitzen Trapper House of Blues October 12, 2010 Because Aftermath only found out former KLOL morning DJ Mark Stevens had died a few hours before Blitzen Trapper went onstage at House of Blues Tuesday night, we couldn't help thinking about that while the Portland six-pie ... More >>

RIP Guitar Hero: 10 Songs The Game Gave New Life

​Thursday, Activision killed the musical video game Guitar Hero after six years of turning young ears into heshers, glammers, and classic-rock devotees. The debt that older bands like the Ramones, Poison, Black Sabbath and Rush owe to the game is immense. True, the kids (and drunk adults), wer ... More >>

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Snubs Rush...Again

Photo by Jeff Balke​A couple years ago, I was sitting on the back porch at the Continental Club talking music with a fairly well known music writer who seemed to believe that anything with a big hook or the slightest inkling of musicianship beyond the garage band aesthetic was utter garbage. I ... More >>

Travelin' Band: What Do The Features Listen To On The Road?

​So The Twilight Saga has exactly two things that keep the films from being absolute torture. The first is Ashley Greene in all her pixie-hotness, and the second is that there really are some excellent bands that end up on the soundtracks. Case in point, the Features were featured recently i ... More >>