Andrew Lentz

You want glitz? Need gore? Got a jones for Urantia girls and Hittites and words like betwixt? Mind-bending eclecticism is just part of the Deadsy puzzle. While front man P. Exeter Blue I, a.k.a. Elijah Blue, doesn’t shed much light on these confused messages, the cogent force with which he......

CRACK (WE ARE ROCK), BRAD LANER, KID606, SEKSU ROBA at the Derby, May 17 Crack (We Are Rock) charmed tonight's Gauloise-smoking fobs right out of their ennui-filled poses and onto the dance floor. Looking all of 12 years old in their matching white sleeveless gowns, Crack's leading ladies intoned fem-bot......

With close-cropped flaxen hair, rosy cheeks and a gray wool sweater, Dave King is a splendid advertisement for bucolic Irish innocence. Fact is, King is a bona fide ghetto urchin from north Dublin -- branded for life with the accent. Think is ”tink,“ that is ”dat,“ and every other word......

Photo Gregory Bojorquez “By the way, we’re not lesbians,” says Bryony Atkinson. The singer-bassist of Merrick is lounging along with guitarist-singer partner Inara George at the band’s favorite eatery on Melrose when she makes the random announcement. “Not that we care what people think, but at the same time I......

“Have you heard this kid? He‘s sick,” says a Power 106 host describing the turntable prowess of Ron Keys, known to his vinyl-shredding peers as DJ Swamp. Making a beeline for the 1200s, Swamp proceeds to bastardize pop’s sacred cows: Nirvana‘s “Lithium” is cross-faded with Kraftwerk’s “Trans Europe Express”; Men......

Pigeon John’s voice sounds watery over his cell phone. It doesn’t help that he’s squashed into the booth of a pizza parlor with the rest of indie hip-hop crew L.A. Symphony, enjoying a hearty repast before a show tonight in San Diego. Is scarfing down a large pie really the......

Delve into the history behind the expression torch singer and Abby Travis will give you dead silence. “I don‘t know where that term comes from,” the 31-year-old vocal stylist--instrumentalist says between puffs on a Gauloise. “Because they’re ever burning?” Seems the only things Travis has in common with those sultry......

During a jaunt through Europe, Dino Cazares relaxes outside one of the many cafes that line the sun-drenched avenidas of Barcelona. The Fear Factory guitarist feels right at home, and he oughta -- castellano is no problem for the Spanglish-speaking, East Los--bred Cazares, and his burly physique and shoulder-length black......

Success changes people. He spent years slumming in a South San Fran housing project, jumpin’ the BART turnstile for free rides to Daly City and breaking into more cars than he cares to remember, so you‘d think that playing guitar and singing in Rancid -- one-third of the mid-’90s pop-punk......