By Bob Gendron Special to the Tribune Published April 30, 2007 Hoisting a large piece of silver sheet metal over his head, Antibalas vocalist/percussionist Amayo briefly glanced at the Park West crowd as if to give them warning before bringing the noise. Shaking the material, which upon contact produced a …
Tom Waits will be performing on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' on Friday, May 4, taping in San Francisco. Make sure you tune in!
If Antibalas needed a justification for dropping the Afrobeat Orchestra handle for their fourth album, Security, they needed to look no further than opening track "Beaten Metal". With the emphatic swagger of the Flaming Lips' "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2" and the dexterously sharp grooves of Tortoise's "The …
Amazon.com One of the major problems with modern country revolves around the fact that--save George Jones, Merle Haggard, and Loretta Lynn--almost all the characters who poured the foundation for post-World War II hillbilly culture are dead or no longer recording. Which brings us to the miracle of Porter Wagoner's new …
Aussie singer-songwriter Xavier Rudd will release the follow-up to his Anti- Records debut, 2005's Food In The Belly, on June 19. Two nights earlier, Rudd will launch a six-week headlining tour in support of White Moth's release. Then Dave Matthews himself will join the up-and-coming artist for five New England …
Guest List: Cadence Weapon Guest List by Rollie Pemberton Welcome to the latest edition of Pitchfork's Guest List. Each week, we ask one of our favorite artists to fill us in on what they've been up to lately: which tracks they can't stop spinning, what books they can't put down, …