San Francisco's Tommy Castro has earned a reputation for his brand of energetic urban Blues and his latest album, Right As Rain (Blind Pig Records) should further that rep. Castro's handling of   

The eponymous debut from Athens, GA's Macha (on Jetset Records) is, in a word, mesmerizing, a swirling mix of hypnotic Eastern music, eclectic Indie Guitar Rock and Prog Rock. Inspired by a trip   

Ohio's answer to the Allman Brothers, Ekoostik Hookah, are celebrating the release of their sixth CD, Sharp in the Flats, by doing what they do best: touring. The album is a collection of mostly   

Jazz Mandolin Project have a Bluegrass connection in their sound, thanks to Jamie Masefield's picking, but as their latest CD, Tour De Flux, reveals, JMP are an enthralling Jazz project through a  

Usually lumped in with Folk artists, Bill Morrissey's vivid storytelling abilities (he is also a novelist) have always had the immediacy and emotional gruff of the best Blues lyrics. So it's not  

After enduring enough label skirmishes to make anyone call it a day, Scrawl have moved on with their careers after their recent relationship with their first major label, Elektra, fell apart. Arme  

Brave Old World are considered one of the best groups of its genre, performing a progressive, skillful version of the traditional Jewish music called Klezmer. The group emerged in the late '80s a  

Usually when you say there's no pigeonholing a band, it's a bit of an overstatement. A good music critic can nail anyone down to a genre. Much as we try, there's no getting a handle on the affa  

There's at least two reasons why the past two out of three albums by veteran pub rockers NRBQ have been live albums. First, in concert is where the band shines, the great songs befiting the ragge  

Despite being a fair distance from Big Band Jump Swing, Salsa up-and-comers Bio Ritmo have been making waves on the Swing circuit with their horn-laden, Latin and African rhythms for the past coup  

Playing by ye ol' loud, fast rules, Lower East Side Stitches (from New York's Lower East Side, not Norwood), will invade the Queen City in support of their latest, confusingly titled effort, STA