Email Author Sam Prestianni

2007 Stories by Sam Prestianni

• ZZ Top Returns for Your "Tush"

  published October 31, 2007

  As a visionary member of psychedelic garage-rockers 13th Floor Elevators, Texas punk pioneer Roky Erickson cemented his place in modern... More >>

• Shape-Shifter

  published October 24, 2007

  Almost 50 years ago, Ornette Coleman recorded his major-label debut, The Shape of Jazz to Come, which came on the heels of two fine,... More >>

• Hear This

  published October 10, 2007

  A Boston-based gang of indie rockers reveling in '80s hair metal, Bang Camaro comes off like the infernal spawn of the Polyphonic Spree... More >>

• Zap Mama

  published August 29, 2007

  In the nearly two decades since Congo-born and Belgium-raised Marie Daulne founded Zap Mama, her vision of one-world music has evolved from... More >>

• Cock of the Walk

  published August 8, 2007

  Old Crow Medicine Show defines the in sound of 21st-century bluegrass. A li'l bit country, a whole lotta rock ´n' roll, the... More >>

• Take A Deep Breath

  published July 11, 2007

  Billing itself as a "new music ensemble" gives Nanos Operetta the freedom to explore performance beyond any preconceptions of genre, style, or... More >>

• The Pipettes doll up pop in polka dots

  published June 6, 2007

  The ironic title of Lucinda Williams ' 1980 album Happy Woman Blues sums up the contradictions of this mercurial artist. She... More >>

• Paying Homage to a Master

  published May 16, 2007

  Monk is wild. Monk is smart. Offbeat yet sophisticated, Monk is bent-beautiful. Twenty-five years after his death and nearly twice that long since... More >>

• International Relations

  published March 28, 2007

  Unlike her snoozy superstar half-sister Norah Jones, Anoushka Shankar is very much her father's daughter. Which is saying something when your pops... More >>

• Under Byen's Icelandic envy

  published March 14, 2007

  Thanks in part to the benevolent gaze of previous tourmates My Morning Jacket, Dr. Dog 's status as Philadelphia's lo-fi-loving motley... More >>

• Mountain Goats graze through three sold out shows

  published March 7, 2007

  Portland's Charlie Salas-Humara is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist best known as Panther . Like a one-man short-wave set with... More >>

• Keeping the beat in New Orleans: Preservation Hall Jazz Band

  published February 21, 2007

  For two decades, the world-renowned Los Angeles Guitar Quartet has aimed to bring classical music to the masses by expanding conventional... More >>