Ennio Morricone

Summer Guide: Pioneertown's Faux Frontier Paradise

Get Way (High) Out West With Spindrift's Classic Soundtracks , Vol. 1

​ Listen to this while high: Spindrift's Classic Soundtracks, Vol. 1 ​ Behind the buzz: Experimental rockers from Delaware, Spindrift drifted west back in the '90s to embrace the reigning space-cowboy psychedelic aesthetic. Going a bit overboard, as new-minted Californians will, they took ... More >>

R.I.P. Jeff Jacobs, Trumpeter of SF Ensemble The Drift

Austin post-rock darlings Explosions in the Sky came to the Great American Music Hall in November to play a benefit show for the Jeff Jacobs Cancer Fund, set up for the trumpet player and keyboardist of San Francisco spaghetti-Western-jazz ensemble The Drift. Sad to report, via both bands' label, ... More >>

For the Sadies, country twang is a family affair

Austin post-rock darlings Explosions in the Sky came to the Great American Music Hall in November to play a benefit show for the Jeff Jacobs Cancer Fund, set up for the trumpet player and keyboardist of San Francisco spaghetti-Western-jazz ensemble The Drift. Sad to report, via both bands' label, ... More >>

Broken Bells' pop partnership

Austin post-rock darlings Explosions in the Sky came to the Great American Music Hall in November to play a benefit show for the Jeff Jacobs Cancer Fund, set up for the trumpet player and keyboardist of San Francisco spaghetti-Western-jazz ensemble The Drift. Sad to report, via both bands' label, ... More >>

Mike Patton's Mondo Cane Disc Says Ciao to Italian Oldies

Along with corralling his Faith No More bandmates into appearances at Coachella and The Warfield, musical chameleon and Bay Area legend Mike Patton has been brushing up on his Italian. The adventurous Patton's upcoming album Mondo Cane indulges his love for '50s and '60s Italian oldies, and f ... More >>

Délicieuse Dissard

Along with corralling his Faith No More bandmates into appearances at Coachella and The Warfield, musical chameleon and Bay Area legend Mike Patton has been brushing up on his Italian. The adventurous Patton's upcoming album Mondo Cane indulges his love for '50s and '60s Italian oldies, and f ... More >>

After years of drone and addiction, Earth hears the light

Along with corralling his Faith No More bandmates into appearances at Coachella and The Warfield, musical chameleon and Bay Area legend Mike Patton has been brushing up on his Italian. The adventurous Patton's upcoming album Mondo Cane indulges his love for '50s and '60s Italian oldies, and f ... More >>

LastNight: RZA at the Independent

Along with corralling his Faith No More bandmates into appearances at Coachella and The Warfield, musical chameleon and Bay Area legend Mike Patton has been brushing up on his Italian. The adventurous Patton's upcoming album Mondo Cane indulges his love for '50s and '60s Italian oldies, and f ... More >>

Settling Scores

Along with corralling his Faith No More bandmates into appearances at Coachella and The Warfield, musical chameleon and Bay Area legend Mike Patton has been brushing up on his Italian. The adventurous Patton's upcoming album Mondo Cane indulges his love for '50s and '60s Italian oldies, and f ... More >>

Disquiet Storm

Jennifer Gentle tweaks psych rock in cinematic ways

Sagebrush & Spaghetti

Jennifer Gentle tweaks psych rock in cinematic ways

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Earth

Hibernaculum (Southern Lord)

The Italian Job

Local imprint offers prog-rock masterworks from Italia's other Renaissance

Morrissey

Ringleader of the Tormentors

Ennio Morricone

Crime and Dissonance

Alvarius B

Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset

A Filipino Dorothy

The Wizard in a tree

Paula Frazer

Leave the Sad Things Behind

Private Parts

Intelligent Design meets masturbation at the Lone Palm

House of Tudor

Las Pesadillas are a nightmare to classify, but Boneless Children Foundation is easy: freakin' weird

Creep Week

Seven nights of frightening films

Keeping Occupied

Did The Battle of Algiers teach the Pentagon tactical lessons?

Way Out West

A heaping helping of Leone

Paula Frazer

A Place Where I Know: 4-Track Songs 1992-2002

House of Tudor

L.A.'s Eleni Mandell doesn't care if you like her sultry voice or not - but you will

Like Mamma Used to Make

Viewing The Restaurant gets our critic hungry for old-fashioned red-sauce Italian

For Christ's Sake!

Irreligious reels

Reps Etc.

Irreligious reels

Popular Pirate Viewing

Irreligious reels

Pram

Dark Island

Hear This

Morr Music's bands carve out the territory between indie rock and techno

Reps Etc.

Morr Music's bands carve out the territory between indie rock and techno

He Scores

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

The Whee Design

Call and Response updates the West Coast sound for the new millennium

Prophet Ear

Ex-Green on Red mainstay Chuck Prophet continues his solo metamorphosis with The Hurting Business

Willem Breuker Kollektief

Hunger!

House Of Tudor

Bamboleo, Pendulum, "Fetish 2000," Johnny Dowd

Riff Raff

Silly Rabbit, From the Guitar Desk ..., From the Turntable Jazz Desk ...

House Of Tudor

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

Range Rovers

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

Night Crawler

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

House of Tudor

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

Reviews

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

'Sticks and Stones

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

Recordings

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

Recordings

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

Dubbed Dialogue

The legacy of dub on the U.K.'s Massive Attack and Omar