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Production Values: The Groove Is Out There 

By Maureen Droney

As a founding member of Nine Inch Nails, drummer-producer Chris Vrenna spent a lot of time exploring his dark side. He also spent a lot of time creating...

Analog in My Soul 

By Gino Robair

My main instruments are modular analog synthesizers, says Olivier Gerber, who, under the name Smoo, released Traffic in My Soul (Neuronium, 2002). Working...

Band on the Web 

By Geary Yelton

GrooveLily is not your average rock 'n' roll power trio. Two out of three members have graduate degrees in music; the third graduated from Princeton with...

Band on the Web 

By Geary Yelton

Some bands find their beginnings in the desire to make it big, to become popular enough to gain fame and fortune, and incidentally, to make satisfying...

Experimental Journey 

By Matt Gallagher

Dualities exist on many levels in Juan Carlos Mendizabal's music. Born in El Salvador, Mendizabal immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s as...

Sound Thinking 

By Matt Gallagher

Steve Tibbetts's ECM release A Man About a Horse is awash in layered guitar and percussion parts that coalesce into a variety of sonic textures. The album...

Band on the Web 

By Geary Yelton

Hailing from the Seattle area, rock group Superlush is singer and songwriter Liz Aday, guitarist and songwriter Chad Quist, bassist Brian Lake, and drummer...

Multimedia Magic 

By Dennis Miller

Ask anyone around the University of North Texas College of Music about who's doing the most exciting work in music technology, and the answer will certainly...

Virtual-Orchestra Maestro 

By Matt Gallagher

While manipulating digital audio is all the rage among many electronic musicians, San Francisco based composer Jerry Gerber is excited about the possibilities...

Cause and Effects 

By Matt Gallagher

Brooklyn resident Tyondai Braxton expresses his art in varied contexts and mediums. Most recently, Braxton son of experimental multireedist and composer...

Band on the Web 

By Gino Robair

One of the ways a band can maximize the time a visitor stays at its site is to create something more than just a place to hawk merchandise. Such a site...

Funky Good Time 

By Matt Gallagher

Tim Ramenofsky (aka Headfridge) and Gerrit Brusse (aka King Leisure) began their musical partnership in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It was there that Ramenofsky...

Band on the Web 

By Gino Robair

Few artists have taken the DIY attitude to the limits as successfully as composer, improviser, inventor, luthier, and designer Hans Reichel. For his most...

Begin Transmission 

By Matt Gallagher

Southern California band Anything Box takes its cues primarily from British influences. Since 1986, Anything Box has investigated alternative pop, new...

Metalwood 

By Gino Robair

Few indie jazz groups' Web sites are as attractive as Metalwood's. The band Mike Murley on saxophones, Brad Turner on trumpet and keyboards, Chris Tarry...

Band on the Web 

By Gino Robair

To be an independent recording artist today, you have to be involved in every aspect of the business, from writing, arranging, and recording to managing...

Sweet Soul Music 

By Matt Gallagher

Motown artist Remy Shand resists the label that is often associated with his music. Shand, who hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba, learned to craft songs in...

Band on the Web 

By Gino Robair

Sucia's (www.suciamusic.com) first release, I Want My Records Back, offers compelling songs, tight grooves, and luscious vocals with an intimate, somewhat...

Sinister Luck Ensemble - Anniversary - Album Review 

By Matt Gallagher

The debut album from Chicago's daring Sinister Luck Ensemble, Anniversary, offers listeners tight orchestration combined with improvisation and breaks...

One for Al 

By Matt Gallagher

Guitarist-songwriter Al Schnier grew up absorbing an abundance of musical influences while learning to play a number of instruments. Since 1991 Schnier...

Modular Mayhem (Minus) 

By Matt Gallagher

Minus is a fixture in the Pacific Northwest's improvisational music scene. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, Minus comprises Mark France on guitar and vocals,...

Basement High Jinks - Count Zero 

By Matt Gallagher

Count Zero's Robots Anonymous is an offbeat, tongue-in-cheek work in which retro pop meets electronica. I've always been interested in mixing rhythm-section...

Pleasant Stitch - Band Profile 

By Matt Gallagher

Pleasant Stitch's music defies precise categorization. Touching on ambient, darkwave pop, and gothic trip-hop styles, it is influenced by the Cocteau...

Forbidden Planet 

By Mark Smith

Although guitarist Neil Haverstick lives in the shadow of the snow-covered Rocky Mountains, he might as well be from another planet. A devotee of microtonal...

The Final Frontier 

By Matt Gallagher

Kevin Moore was the original keyboardist in the progressive-rock band Dream Theater before embarking on a solo career as Chroma Key. I quit the band because...

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