Captain Beefheart

Captain Beefheart, aka Don Vleit (middle name originally Glen and later Van), is one of the more mysterious figures in music. Read More

The upstairs room of the pub is packed. Read More

Ok last comment I left I told you to listen to American Idiot. Read More

There's a song on Tagyerit's latest album, Shimmer , that gets to the heart of many of Rich and Flo Newman's favorite things. Read More

Ryan at WMSE introduced me to The Woes during our 26th podcast . Read More

Dirty Projectors' last album, 2007's Rise Above , was a chamber-rock rewrite-from-memory of Black Flag 's 1981 hardcore punk classic Damaged , a radical reinterpretation so thorough that the songs were barely recognizable. Read More

At first glance, the term "jazz rabbi" might seem incongruous, but the recent installation of Greg Wall, a well-known jazz musician, as the rabbi at the Sixth Street Community Synagogue , a modern Orthodox congregation in the East Village, shows that the porkpie and the yarmulke are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Read More

The Fiery Furnaces, the brother-and-sister duo of Matt and Eleanor Friedberger, are known for making challenging, offbeat pop music. Read More

SINCE being nominated for the Mercury Prize in the summer, Sweet Billy Pilgrim have been catapulted from obscurity into the media spotlight. Read More

The avant garde rock group Henry Cow pioneered the Canterbury Sound and while this 1974 album is not the most accessible music, it's beautiful in its own way. Read More