Back in the post-Nirvana early ’90s, Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando became an alt-rock sex symbol, a rising star who disappeared for nearly a decade, reportedly as the result of a pretty bad drug problem. But now he’s back, with his first solo album, Baby I’m Bored, and a new lease on life. Dando’s rootsy alt-rock […]

If you read the publicity on Toronto’s Broken Social Scene, you’ll find that the band is more of a collective, with a rotating cast of members who filter in and out and swap duties from song to song. If you listen to the band’s sophomore effort, You Forgot It in People (which won a Canadian […]

Winners of this year’s International Blues Challenge, Atlanta’s Delta Moon aren’t, perhaps, what you’d imagine a great blues band would be: all-white and with a noticeable NPR-ish vibe. Acoustic guitarist and pianist Tom Gray looks more like someone you’d see reading the Sunday Times at the neighborhood coffee shop than a blues player, his professorial […]

Hey, Square Pegs, bust out all your horizontal stripes, pull on your checkerboard Vans, buy a skinny tie and some really stupid-looking sunglasses, and get ready to get freaky, 1980s-style. Just as the retro-sound of the East Coast’s Electroclash movement was positioning itself to become the new old sound of the future, here come Portland, […]

Labor Day weekend is typically one of Memphis’ most hectic and fruitful times for live music, and this year is no exception. The highlight, as usual, is the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival (see Local Beat, page 53), which will unite a typically stellar grab bag of Memphis artists Friday, August 29th, through Sunday, August […]