Email Author Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

2009 Stories by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

• Tigercity

  published December 3, 2009

  It's not every day that you find a group of musicians who can straddle the line between the dreamy atmospheres of Ambient Works-era... More >>

• Kirk Hammett Muses on Metallica's Redemption

  published October 1, 2009

  Two decades removed from its last truly cutting-edge work, 1988's classic ... And Justice for All, Metallica finds itself strangely... More >>

• Belphegor

  published May 7, 2009

  It's one thing to worship Satan. It's another to hate Jesus with the festering disgust of Austrian black-metal outfit Belphegor. In a genre in... More >>

• Todd Rundgren

  published March 19, 2009

  With his soaring voice and arena-rock fluency, Todd Rundgren seemed destined for hit-after-hit superstardom when he released his third album,... More >>

• EOTO

  published March 5, 2009

  Consisting of former String Cheese Incident members Michael Travis and Jason Hann, the electronic duo EOTO brings, as expected, heavy shades of... More >>

• Troubadour Alejandro Escovedo Brings His American Tales to the Culture Room

  published January 15, 2009

  "It's like comparing the different women you've fallen in love with," muses journeyman singer/songwriter Alejandro Escovedo. "Some end up well,... More >>

• Combichrist

  published January 8, 2009

  On Combichrist's fourth and latest album, Today We Are All Demons, the band's mastermind, Andy LaPlegua, effectively ups the ante on the... More >>

• Smash Mouth

  published January 8, 2009

  If a band exists solely to keep the party going — as California's Smash Mouth clearly does — it makes perfect sense to catch that... More >>

• Galactic brings its space funk to Revolution

  published January 8, 2009

  Some people," laughs Galactic bassist Robert Mercurio, "think we're just a bunch of college kids playing old New Orleans music." That... More >>

• The Doobie Brothers

  published January 1, 2009

  Ahhh... the sweet sounds of classic '70s California pop. No one has ever embodied that sound more than the Doobie Brothers. And now that the... More >>

• The Baroness of Bop

  published January 1, 2009

  Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter still looms in the margins of jazz history. Until now, her contributions during the '50s, '60s, and '70s... More >>

• Smash Mouth

  published January 1, 2009

  If a band exists solely to keep the party going -- as California’s Smash Mouth clearly does -- it makes perfect sense to catch that... More >>