Raveonettes sit down and talk about each track from the new album. Tags: Ottobar, Raveonettes, thrushes...

Want to save a quick grand? Buy The Local Anesthetic! Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Colorado, Defex, Frantix, Peter Buck, Punk, Thurston Moore...

The Raveonettes' Lust Lust Lust bursts with '50s and '90s sound elements. Tags: Album Reviews, Baltimore, New Releases, Ottobar, The Raveonettes, thrushes...

A continuous mix hellbent on turning your brain into salad through the easy access point of your ears, Pulling Teeth's Martyr Immortal (Deathwish) is the kind of record that takes you behind Ottobar, smashes your face into a car hood a few times to make its point, and then gives you a ride home beca...

Out last week on Tent City Records, Freedom of Speech Means Talk Is Cheap is the first we've heard from Destroy Everything in several years. From the clever album art with its sardonic take on American iconography, Freedom makes no bones about the anarchist ideals (at its most conservative far left:...

Apparently MTV does still play videos every once in a while: Dillinger Escape Plan's utterly catchy "Milk Lizard" from the current LP Ire Works (one of 2007's AGT Top 10) recently had a video premiere on Headbanger's Ball (click the link to watch the video). I don't get the chair that's flying aroun...

Released last fall, Jason Dove's We Should Be Together is a dramatic amalgam of classic pop, pluckiness, and a rock intensity rarely heard in heartfelt indie songs such as these.  The beefy groove of "So You Know" is bolstered by the knob-turning of J. Robbins (Jawbox), who recorded the album i...

ZEN BLACK 1/21/08 Fletcher’s Baltimore, Maryland On a Monday night in downtown Baltimore there really isn’t too much going on in all honesty, but if you’re into the local music scene, the ONLY option for seeing the best local bands in town is “Noise in the Basement� which is hosted by Matt...

A long-overdue nod to a record that came out January 8: Yiddish finds its place with The Shondes' progressive, feminist, queer-core riot record The Red Sea. Already the recipient of many Sleater-Kinney references, due at least in part to the warble of Louisa Solomon. The monotone but urgent shout ha...