Max Graham

It’s a cold and wet morning in Chilliwack, nestled in the Canadian Rockies east of Vancouver B.C. Max Graham is feeding aural nourishment to the flock of partiers present at the Summerlove rave of 1998. “Kittens” by Underworld is being sprayed through the speakers into the early morning mist, and the crowd greets it with [...]

Grand Puba

The lead rapper for Brand Nubian came out roaring on his own with Reel to Reel in 1992. It contained everything from unrelenting Nation of Islam propaganda to one number that seemed like an updated “My Ding-a-Ling” with its shameless touting of Puba’s sexual prowess. But overall, it showed he had the skills to flourish [...]

Grand Theft Audio

“We didn’t want to make an album that makes people say ‘Oh, that’s alright,’” says Grand Theft Audio frontman Jay Butler. “We wanted to make a record that either completely inspires people, or makes them never want to hear it again. We wanted to make a record that’s gonna bug the shit out of people, [...]

Grant Lee Buffalo

When the members of Grant Lee Buffalo walked out of the studio after completing Copperopolis in 1996, they knew it was the final chapter of a trilogy. In the future, they concluded, GLB would visit musical places it had never been to in the four years since it emerged from the Los Angeles underground.
Fast forward [...]

The Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead wrought a psychedelic revolution upon the cultural landscape of the Sixties. They also kept the spirit of the Sixties alive in the decades that followed, building a massive, supportive network of fans known as “Deadheads.” The Dead and their peers on the San Francisco scene helped steer the adventurous rock audience [...]

Gratitude

“We’re sort of an un-supergroup,” laughs former Far frontman Jonah Matranga, who, along with ex-Crumb guitarist Mark Weinberg, is in charge of San Francisco-based Gratitude.
While it’s true that their résumés are filled with influential sounds and cultlike followings, Matranga and Weinberg are too excited about Gratitude’s self-titled debut to think too much about the past. [...]

David Gray

Three years on from his last album, the four times platinum A New Day At Midnight, David Gray presents Life In Slow Motion, recorded between autumn 2003 and spring 2005 and released through Atlantic/iht Records on September 12.
The title, says David, “brings all kinds of images to mind, time lapse photography or someone standing still. [...]

Macy Gray

The voice of Macy Gray is a wondrous thing. It can be as intimate as the wee small hours or as exciting as a packed nightclub; disarmingly sweet on one song, harsh and raspy on another. The obvious comparison is to the post-war Billie Holiday, but there are traces of other singers both legendary and [...]

Macy Gray - On How Life Is

Artist: Macy Gray
Title: On How Life Is
Label: Epic
Rating: 7/10

Macy Gray has a booming voice. It is as savory and powerful as the many great women’s voices that she claims as her mentors; Billie Holiday is her most obvious influence, but you also get the feeling that Tina Turner and Nina Simone had roles of no [...]

Great White - Latest & Greatest

Artist: Great White
Title: Latest & Greatest
Label: Columbia
Rating: 4/10

Big hair isn’t back yet, is it? I thought it’d take another twenty years before it came back around. At least I prayed it would take that long. Well, Great White has put out a greatest hit album of sorts. The first track is a cover of Led [...]