Theater of war
“There goes a certified hero.”
Bill Manson 10 a.m., Dec. 12
Of Note
Brothers to Brotherhood
This is a jam band with the Grateful Dead’s fingerprints all over it
Chris Robinson is long of beard and graying, but still in possession of the skills that pushed his old band the Black Crowes to another level entirely. Back then, in front of the Crowes, Robinson ...
Improbably seasoned
Kid Jonny Lang didn’t sound like a kid
Blues music is appreciated even in the most un-blues-like corners of the world. North Dakota, for example. It may be possible to trace the radiation of that music into such desolate territory back to a ...
Close and distant
Cat Power’s Wanderer hits home
By the time Chan Marshall reaches San Diego as her alter ego Cat Power, she will have released Wanderer, her first album of new music in six years. The reviewers at Pitchfork gave it a ...
From Chula Vista keggers to the big leagues
The original P.O.D. is still at it
Right around the Millennium, it was a good time for rock and roll music. The early 2000’s saw a trend of hybrid bands that mixed hardcore, punk, hip hop, and grunge. Nu Metal, or Rapcore ...
The latest spin on America’s oldest music
The Record Company: file under “blues trio”
Some have tried it with two and made big noise, but trios are the foundation of rock and roll. Consider the Wombats, Cream, Nirvana, Motorhead, the Beastie Boys, ZZ Top, Green Day, the Black Rebel ...
No-frills four-on-the-floor roots rock
William Clark Green writes simple melodies and words that make you think
William Clark Green from Flint, Texas is a country music band leader with a rock-and-roll heart. Not recycled Top 40 rock made into country music with a violin and a string of clichés for words. ...
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band: country blues’ lethal weapon
The Guit-gun is a small-bore shotgun the Reverend converted into a guitar
I’m guessing it’s not easy to be the Reverend Peyton. His particular apple fell from the Charley Patton tree of the blues, and though it may have bounced, it did not bounce far. Patton, who ...
Halloween comes every day for Michale Graves
The former Misfits lead singer continues to write ambiguous and frightening songs
It’s a familiar face, albeit one decorated from ear to ear in fright makeup. Some of you may remember Michale Graves from the Misfits. Graves, from New Jersey, won the audition for lead singer in ...
More skate park or Whole Foods than faux vampire
The Growlers can blend a generational tapestry of genres that sounds complex, but is not
Some of the best rock music has been made in California. The Growlers are the present-day sum of that Golden state legacy. Imagine the Heartbreakers, but with random hints of surf rock, garage rock, British ...
Ozzy Osbourne: the Grammy-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is road-dogging it
Fifty years in the business from Black Sabbath to Hollywood celebrity
So many years, so much Ozzy. He’s the guy who famously chomped a bat on stage, a story that’s been told and re-told so many times now over the years that it’s become myth. Then ...
50 years of East L.A. blues-rock
The Delgado Brothers Band came out of the scene that gave us El Chicano, Los Lobos, and Cannibal and the Headhunters
50 years of East L.A. blues-rock
