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Call Kaki King a guitar god. It's OK — Rolling Stone did. To her, it's a compliment, though she's not entirely sure what to make of such a lofty tag. "What does that even mean?" she asks. "When someone says you're a 'Guitar This' or a 'Guitar Warrior Pri

Hailing from the shadows of Belgium, the Lords of Acid is a sexually charged collective led by Industrial/Techno freak Praga Kahn. The Acid maestro and his beloveds have been seducing nightclubs since 1988, when the Lords released "I Sit on Acid," a hyp

The Seedy Seeds have a "Verb Noun" on their hands. That's the new record, a darker-yet-still-danceable side of their Cincinnati-cultured, Indie/Electronic/Folk/Pop worth a thousand hearts.The crew host a CD release party at Southgate house Saturday.Check

From my home, on the tip of Ludlow, I can roll down the hill to places such as the PBR, Bud-guzzling Rita’s Place, or perhaps Willie’s Sports Bar, a HDTV gallery serving decent hot wings. But my true Covington haunts are further — about a mile and then s

Josh Ritter's latest record flirts with Folk and Rock and leaves AltCountry in the dust, capturing the Idaho singer/songwriter whispering melodies over pianos and acoustics or getting a little dirty with organs and guitars. 'So Runs the World Away' is on

Tokyo Police Club will probably deliver another EP of Electro-laced Indie Rock in late 2011, but most of this year brings month-long tours and time for jamming. So says guitarist Josh Hook, who checked in by phone from Austin, Tex., more than 1,500 miles

"I think a lot of people associate skill with show-off-y-ness," The Thermals' drummer, Westin Glass, says by phone from Portland, Ore. "They thought that (bandmates) Hutch and Kathy had told me not to play more complicated parts, but that's exactly what

Irony is something The Hold Steady has worn for years — and really, the fact that multi-instrumentalist Franz Nicolay left the band in January seems like a stitch in that overcoat. The designer of such irony is Craig Finn, guitarist and storyteller of th

Rocky Votolato's songwriting will take him to the West again and again, given that his newest album, 'True Devotion', is a win for Barsuk Records, which released it in February. It's a semi-autobiographical Folk-centered collection. He plays the Southgat

Alex Brown Church’s latest Sea Wolf offering, White Water, White Bloom, dropped last week. Like 2007’s Leaves in the River, the new album finds Alex lifting his nature-centered narratives with a steady acoustic guitar and orchestral rivers full of broodi

Disambiguation is fun. Type “Iran” into Wikipedia and a road to reliable and unreliable sources opens. But nowhere does it say that a band took up the name in 2000. No link. No pop culture reference. The Brooklyn Noise Pop band needs attention for severa

Son Volt’s latest touring efforts have been decent, as drummer Dave Bryson points out with a touch of sarcasm on the band’s blog. Bryson’s steady blog proves that Jay Farrar has stability with Son Volt’s latest lineup. The AltCountry band took quite a hi

Try picking a venue here that suits Cass McCombs and his Catacombs well. Would it be the Mad Hatter? (Maybe.) Madison Theater? Taft? If he is touring the new album, he needs a lot of space, some place where he could thrive — at least on the material from