Melissa Hung

Demigods Polyphonic Demigods On Maudlin Street, where power rock meets romantic longing, the Demigods reign. On its recent self-release Polyphonic, the band fusses over obsessive, nearly unhealthy love. "You, you are the one for me / You're everything I want, you and me / We make a perfect pair /...

So Lilith Fair skipped Houston this year. Big deal. The way L7 lead babe Donita Sparks sees it, you didn't want to go anyway. It would have been a yawn. That's why she and her three bandmates, Suzi Gardner, Dee Plakas and Janis Tanaka, hired a small plane to fly...

Kayfabe The Hellen Keller Tapes Kayfabe Redundant. That's the overriding impression of Kayfabe's new EP, The Hellen Keller Tapes. The trio's execution is solid, but the material is so unoriginal and ponderous that it hurts to open your ears to it. Formed in 1996, Kayfabe, formerly known as Hellen Keller...

Margaret Cho suffers from the opposite of stage fright. In real life, she's a mess. "I have incredible difficulties doing the smallest things," the 30-year-old comedian says from New York. "I can't shop for groceries. I can't run errands. I just shut down." But when Cho has a mike in...