Greg Burk

The accuser. The rover. The remote one. The one who burns. These are a few translations, based on speculative etymologies, that have been offered for Satan, a word Glenn Danzig, with his rock & roll snakes and blood-and-doom and demons, has been dancing around for a long time. And why......

Photo by Ted Soqui"AAAAAAAEEEEEEGH!" RAY ALDER IS screaming and singing these days. With his new side project, Engine, he can afford to flex his cords a trifle more than he does with the respected Connecticut prog-metal outfit Fates Warning, which he's fronted for the past 10 years while contributing little......

OPENING CELEBRATION -- THE AMERICASAt the Hollywood Bowl, October 10 My apologies for being short with the nice festival staff who volunteered to organize this ambitious project; I guess I was one of the few who failed to completely transcend the delays and dogsniffs associated with security for the Dalai......

Photo by Michael SlobodianYOU KNOW HOW YOU CAN REALLY TELL if a music-maker's got the magic stuff? Close your eyes. The other day, I was plugging through a stack of review CDs when piano jazz popped through the speakers. It sounded like some wild sculptor throwing mountains of clay onto......

Photo by Lee TannerSUMMERTIME IS THE RIGHT TIME. RHINO RECORDS' CENTRAL Avenue Sounds, the four-CD companion to the oral-history book of the same name published by University of California Press last year, arrives in the full heat of the season. And hot is how we like to think of the......

I HAD THOUGHT MOST OF MY EXPOSURE TO DON PRESTON came from occasional dips into the dogmatic world of Frank Zappa, with whom he keyboarded and sang on dozens of albums. Then I started looking at his credits, and realized I was wrong. Oh, Preston was on that Gil Evans......

DON'T DRINK THE WATER. THAT'S WHAT THEY TELL travelers everywhere. Also, don't immerse yourself in it. Or eat anything that's been washed in it. The water, see, wants revenge. For now, though, you can still look at it. And listen to it. *** Listen to: Water music Real Audio Format......

Clines, Rudolph & Golia by Debra DiPaolo The most dangerous music is like a reverse pipe bomb: Instead of killing people, it makes them come alive. It exists because it has to; it’s an irrepressible gift. In return for giving it, the musician does not expect to generate capital, encourage......