Libyan-born globe-trotter Hisham Mayet is (among other things) a founding member of Seattle-based recording label Sublime Frequencies (home of eclectic world music including rock and soul from Saigon, Gnawa music from Essaouira and Bollywood steel guitar). He's also produced a number of films for the label that "have been redefining the nature of ethnographic film." […]

"The show is to be an old tyme rock and raw hazing venture," say Athens, Ga.-based garage rockers The Humms. The trio's bio recounts their evolution through influences like "their Cramps-esque B-horror flick shtick … vintage psychedelic lo-fi pop (à la The Troggs) and Gothic blues-rock (think Flat Duo Jets)." The Humms' 2010 full-length, Lemonland […]

In her new book, The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, local author Denise Kiernan recounts the story of the female workers in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The town itself was one of the Manhattan Project’s secret cities, created in 1942. The women recruited to work […]

There are a number of bands working under the monicker Viva, including a classic rock cover band from Miami and a female pop group from India. But the Viva we're talking about here is the front woman/lead singer/rocker Viva DeConcini, called "the love child of Joan Jett and Little Richard" by The Aquarian. Her most […]

Greensboro, N.C.-based Songs of Water fuses ancient and modern, acoustic grass-roots jam sessions and classical training, jazz stylings and organic compositions. And there's the band's "uncommon use of the hammered dulcimer [which] melodically leads many of the group’s instrumental pieces." The seven-member outfit features the songwriting of Stephen Roach; they've performed on Michael Johnathon's WoodSongs […]

The Everyone Orchestra has a bit of a misleading name. Yes, their shows offer an orchestral-esque experience, with a conductor leading the band. But the “everyones” involved are players like Kyle Hollingsworth from String Cheese Incident, Reed Mathis from Tea Leaf Green and Dan “Lebo” Lebowitz from ALO. Expect some all-star locals as well (Greg […]

Local musician Ben Hovey (aka HoveyKraft) is a one-man band in the suavest sense of the word. His "musical adventures fusing EDM with soul, dub, jazz, hip-hop, and world music have taken him from Ultra Music Festival in Miami, to Earthdance in San Francisco, to Burning Man and beyond," says press for the Saturday, March […]