Music
Known as a giant of punk and experimental rock music from the 1980s to the present day, Albini produced and engineered records for Nirvana, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and others.
May 8, 2024
Rattling, pulsating and glowing faintly in the dim El Rey Theatre light, the Tucson-based group Calexico played the music of no man’s land on Wednesday, evoking the seductive beauty of the Southwestern desert, along with its attendant natural and human dangers.
June 1, 2001
John Flansburgh and John Linnell look like partners in a high school science fair project rather than a rock band.
July 16, 1992
Slide Hampton remembers the first time he saw trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie perform.
Sept. 23, 1993
Entertainment & Arts
A flier for the Mexican rock group La Castaneda once described the band as coming “from the most polluted city of the world,” and was illustrated with images of a dark, decadent Third World civilization.
Feb. 12, 1996
Freebies
July 12, 2001
July 11, 1992
When the giant in a recent performance of Storybook Theatre’s musical “Jack and the Beanstalk” stopped at “Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman,” it wasn’t surprising that several young audience members felt free to fill in the rest: “Be he alive, or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.”
June 2, 1995
How is it possible that Color Me Badd, a heretofore unknown new group, has sold 2 million copies of its debut single--and it’s still a month before its first album is released?
June 23, 1991
When the Beastie Boys hit the top of the charts in 1986 with their teen anthem, “Fight for Your Right (to Party),” who would have thought that in a few short years they might be fighting for their right not to party?
Aug. 5, 1992