Baroness

Juicy and jammed with side men and side dishes, “The Jazz Baroness" has all the meat and the trimmings that make it a thanks-worthy special this holiday season on Nov. 25 on HBO2. And what better to sip at this service than vintage Rothschild. Read More

There is a beneficent heat wave of attention returning to the subject of Thelonious Monk. It helps us through the blizzard of fluff perpetually focused on the cheap, the superficial, the vulgar, and the ominously insubstantial. Read More

Herbie Hancock remembers Pannonica, the Rothschild heir who so loved American jazz that she abandoned an aristocratic European life of castles where royalty dined, to live in New York, surrounded by cats (felines and players), and make her rounds from club to club in pursuit of the music. Read More

With the release of the complete Miles on Columbia box set , to the tune of nearly $300, one does wonder about the attention lavished on him, to the possible exclusion of musicians today or even just other important historical figures. Read More

Baroness have grown leaps and bounds as a live band. Read More

The smartest and most intriguing movie I've seen lately won't be playing at a theater near you. Read More

BARONESS kicked off their Metal Injection sponsored headlining tour yesterday in Washington, DC at the Rock and Roll Hotel and our favorite bootleger, Metal Nick was in attendance and you KNOW he had to capture some footage for you loyal junkies. Read More

Launching their U.S. tour Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., Savannah, GA, quartet Baroness wasted little time in showing off the grand, intricate style of Blue Record , one of 2009's most acclaimed metal albums. Read More

Around this time every month, The A.V. Club forgets to lock its back door, and Texas-dwelling scumbag Leonard Pierce lets all of his disreputable longhair friends in to spike the water cooler with SoCo and listen to thrash until someone calls security. Read More

Nica knew all the great New York jazzmen and helped them, whether by buying groceries, acting as an occasional ambulance service, paying overdue rent, getting musicians' instrument out of hock or making hospital visits. Read More