Music Stories INTERVIEW / PREVIEW Tijuana: Beyond Body Shots, Peep Shows and Vomit Frontier Life exposes the musical genius of Mexico's most notorious border town.To most Americans, Tijuana means young drunks, ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW / INTERVIEW PANTS ON FIRE Some have to dance. Some have to kill. Sometimes New York's Liars almost do both.dentifying trends can be a tricky, trite business, usually best left to stock a ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW GROWING UP, BLOWING UP Toys That Kill carries on where teen-punk champions F.Y.P left off.Recess Records proudly boasts of "Contributing to the delinquency of minors since 1990." Todd Cong ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW/INTERVIEW The Man From L.O.V.E. Legendary Arthur Lee is out of jail, on the road and beset by disturbing dreams about snakes.Arthur Lee is in love with Love. And Love is Arthur Lee.In th ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW / INTERVIEW Are Those Guitar Riffs, Or Are Ye Just Excited To Slay Me? High on Fire's alchemy of punk and metal yearns for Darker Ages."If I have a problem, I'll write a song about it and ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW Have You Seen These Kids? Poster Children have made a career of not disappearing.The reunion of the Breeders, once so completely screwed-up their future was despaired of by humanitarians e ...   More

Music Stories NEWS Fahey, Kottke and...Who? Peter Lang revives a career that ranks with the avant-folk greats. In 1974, avant-garde guitar god John Fahey's Takoma Records released a compilation, John Fahey/Pet ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW (Not So) Young PioneerNext time some self-righteous indie rocker starts bending your ear about "DIY," take a deep, patient breath and think of Boris Grebenshikov. Grebenshikov and his band ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW Different Strokes Nina Nastasia's new album demonstrates an intelligent, Southern-fried side of New York's burgeoning music scene.Nina Nastasia is living in New York City amid a rock renai ...   More

Music Stories PREVIEW Two Against the Rock Are power trios doomed? 2Fest makes the case for the New Duos.Sometimes people are like pets in the bedroom--you have to clear 'em out before you can do anything memor ...   More