Gothic Theatre
Artists
Amber Pacific was started in 2002 as a trio of high school juniors who performed locally in their Seattle hometown just for kicks under a different name (Follow Through). What has become the Amber Pacific of today was an idea once… (Read More)
Brooklyn, New York’s Ambulance Ltd resurrect the British shoegazing movement of the late ’80s and early ’90s, employing swirling, dreamy guitars in a indie-rock landscape cluttered by emo purists and punk opportunists. Formed by Marcus Congleton (vocals, guitar), Benji Lysaght (guitar)… (Read More)
Neo-metal act Amen was formed in Los Angeles in 1994 by singer Casey Chaos and guitarist Paul Fig; eventually onetime Ugly Kid Joe drummer Shannon Larkin signed on, bringing with him ex-Snot guitarist Sonny Mayo. Following the 1998 death of Snot… (Read More)
The members of American Head Charge slam home their unique brand of maniacally heavy music with a fury you can’t deny. They make music as if their very lives depended on it, which indeed they do. Ask main-men Chad Hanks (guitar… (Read More)
Drummer Stacy Jones already had his hand in rock & roll prior to his gig with American Hi-Fi. Having been a part of some of the 1990’s biggest alternative acts, Letters to Cleo and Veruca Salt, Jones turned his experience inside… (Read More)
American Minor is a five-piece guitar-driven rock and roll band that hails from the Kanawha River valley of southern West Virginia, not exactly known for being a hotbed of musical activity or a hotbed of anything else really. For the past… (Read More)
Although chosen for its deliberately nondescript qualities, in retrospect the name American Music Club was the perfect moniker for the lauded San Francisco-based band led by singer/songwriter Mark Eitzel: over the course of seven acclaimed albums, the group tied together the… (Read More)
American Splendor was created by Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti in one of the plum performances of his career), an “average Joe” working at a Veterans hospital for the greater part of his adult life. Drawn by cult comic-book artist Robert Crumb… (Read More)
Since their humble start in 1992 as an underground band from Tumba, a suburb in southern Stockholm, AMON AMARTH have managed to establish themselves as one of Europe’s top death metal acts through hard work, relentless touring, and consistently solid albums… (Read More)
Somewhere back in the mid-90’s a fresh faced Brazilian ex-pat living in the UK decided he was going to put down his harmonica, pick up a sampler, and name himself after a Stephen King novel. The resulting album, Cujo’s ’Adventures In… (Read More)
The legendary Finnish metallers Amorphis are back. The band who’ve spent the last ten years reinventing modern metal and have sold hundreds of thousands of albums in the process will release their sixth studio album on the 20th of May 2003… (Read More)
Supply and Demand, the second studio album from Philadelphia native Amos Lee, illuminates his growth from emerging singer-songwriter to established recording artist. From the sparse, powerful, family elegy “Long Line of Pain,” to the country-r&b flavored title track, “Supply and Demand,”… (Read More)
THE BEGINNING. It all began with the brothers’ first official band formed in 1988 in Houston with co-founding member Thomas Ortiz (no relation). This band had nothing more than one guitar and an assortment of buckets for drums. Then they got… (Read More)
Amy Correia believes in ghosts. That’s not what accounts for the otherworldly quality of her remarkable voice, but it may have something to do with the timeless-sounding ambience of her exquisite new album Lakeville (Nettwerk America). The singer/songwriter’s sophomore effort comes… (Read More)
An Evening With Marianne Faithful
Few stars of the ’60s have reinvented themselves as successfully as Marianne Faithfull. Coaxed into a singing career by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, she had a big hit in both Britain and the U.S. with her debut… (Read More)
An Evening With The Richard Thompson Band
No artist to emerge in the second half of the ’60s—a remarkably bountiful period—has gone on to have a more productive and vital career than Richard Thompson. While still a teenager, he founded and led Fairport Convention, which was to… (Read More)
2 SETS!!! Worshipped in San Francisco for his guitar virtuosity, Tommy Castro throws a bit more rock and two bits of soul into his basic blues mix. He has the voice, the band, and the guitar to pull it off. He… (Read More)
