Tag Archives: Alternative Rock

You’d have to be a REAL big Peter Gabriel fan, but there is a way to hear his new album before its 9/24 release: Peter Gabriel fans making travel plans for this month should try to book their flights on Delta. One of the in-flight entertainment choices now being offered …

Jon Pareles reviews Thrill Jockey anniversary party: The urge to innovate mingled with 1970’s nostalgia during “Thrill Jockey Turns 10” at Irving Plaza on Thursday night. It was the first of three New York concerts — two at Irving Plaza and a sold-out show Saturday night at the Bowery Ballroom …

Ben Ratliff reviews QOSA show in NY Times: Queens of the Stone Age make disjunctive rock ‘n’ roll: it’s as loud and nasty as a band can be, while remaining a chilly experience. The reason is Josh Homme, the group’s guitarist and principal singer and songwriter, who once performed the …

The fiercely peculiar Residents have been gracing the world with their unique form of music/performance art for 30 years. In celebration, the anonymous Bay Area eyeballs have much in store, including the release this week of one of their most accessible records ever: Demons Dance Alone. Demons is a (relatively) …

Another great one from the best singer/songwriter/guitarist you've never heard of (unless you have, and then you're cool).

(Return with us now to July 2002 for a look at Oasis’ most recent release. . .)

Ed Harcourt's Here Be Monsters is a contender for album of the year.

The Eels have a recent CD, Souljacker, their fourth. They should be happy, but E, the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist who leads the band, is rarely, if ever, happy. He has the soul of a Russian. At their best, E’s Eels combine rocking rhythm, deft expression of the tragic, and a melodic delicacy …

Please see part 1 here, and part 2 here. Iggy Pop The Velvets, Stooges, and the Dolls were the most important of the ’70s pre-punk bands, and Iggy Pop, after leaving the Stooges, has soldiered on through very long and winding road of punkish, angular hard rock – his signature …

Please see part 1 here. Toots and the Maytals Toots Hibbert is second only to Bob Marley in reggae history as singer and songwriter. Career spans early-’60s ska to today. Gritty, soul-dripping voice along the lines of Otis Redding. Should be next reggae Rock Hall inductee (then Jimmy Cliff). R.E.M. …