Chris Parker

Music’s like a hole with a treasure chest at the bottom: Some spend their whole life looking for it, and others just stumble in by mistake. Count Bleu Edmondson among the latter. REGIONAL HIT HOPING FOR REDEMPTION RENEWED INTEREST The Texas country rocker got his first guitar at 21, and he spent the next year […]

The surest way someplace isn’t always a straight line. Malcolm Holcombe will tell you that. An anachronistic songwriter, he sounds like he’s fresh from the mountain with a creaking twang and the raspy growl of a murder ballad come to life. The musician has a down-home vernacular and a carpe diem attitude that comes out […]

While success is a long, hard slough for some, others find it charges like lighting. English singer/songwriter Bobby Long was finishing his final collegiate year studying film and sound when “Twilight” struck. SECURE THE RIGHTS TWO-WEEK TOUR ASSEMBLING DEBUT Long had nurtured a friendship with a trio of London performers ” Sam Bradley, Marcus Foster […]

Self-released last year, Mr. Gnome’s debut LP, “Deliver This Creature” is a distinctive blend of arty, face-melting guitar shred and billowing space-psych, propelled by drummer Sam Meister’s muscular backbeat and guitarist Nicole Barille’s willowy croon. The Cleveland duo ebbs from an airy, shambling shimmer to gut-busting thunder, transiting moods like a roller coaster. But for […]

If ever a grease stain were to transform into a black hole and begin making music, it’d probably sound like The Mentors. Profane even by punk’s sacrilegious standards, the trio formed out of a Seattle high school in 1976, responding to the Sex Pistols’ brash provocation with an outrageously sexist and hedonistic bombast. Poised between […]

If ever a grease stain were to transform into a black hole and begin making music, it’d probably sound like The Mentors. Profane even by punk’s sacrilegious standards, the trio formed out of a Seattle high school in 1976, responding to the Sex Pistols’ brash provocation with an outrageously sexist and hedonistic bombast. Poised between […]

Self-released last year, Mr. Gnome’s debut LP, “Deliver This Creature” is a distinctive blend of arty, face-melting guitar shred and billowing space-psych, propelled by drummer Sam Meister’s muscular backbeat and guitarist Nicole Barille’s willowy croon. The Cleveland duo ebbs from an airy, shambling shimmer to gut-busting thunder, transiting moods like a roller coaster. But for […]

On the tongue-in-cheek paean, “Americus (Religious Right Rock),” irrepressible, wiseass rap duo Grand Buffet suggests that, “We think abortion is pretty messed-up / If you don’t want a kid, then don’t be a slut.” Whether heralding that child labor or wondering “who tried to rid the woods of free-thinking dudes who cuss too much and […]

On the tongue-in-cheek paean, “Americus (Religious Right Rock),” irrepressible, wiseass rap duo Grand Buffet suggests that, “We think abortion is pretty messed-up / If you don’t want a kid, then don’t be a slut.” Whether heralding that child labor or wondering “who tried to rid the woods of free-thinking dudes who cuss too much and […]

Joe Jack Talcum said he’s never heard a word from Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil, despite immortalizing his vehicular manslaughter charge in Dead Milkmen’s satirical 1980s send-up, “Bitchin’ Camaro.” EIGHT ALBUMS SOLO CAREER Whether hailing the joys of “Smokin’ Banana Peels,” escaped 4-H projects lunching on a Dead tour (“The Thing That Only Eats Hippies”), […]