Scott Morrow

Review: Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz’s Abraxas

The 19th installment of John Zorn’s Book of Angels series is a doozy, as bassist / gimbri player Shanir Ezra…

ALARM’s must-see sets for Lollapalooza 2012

With the day's first set, Lollapalooza 2012 officially begins at 11:30 AM CST — "bright and early" for professional rock…

R&B revival: old-school crooner Nick Waterhouse hits the road

Following the release of his retro-licious album Time's All Gone, old-school-R&B crooner Nick Waterhouse is taking his show across America…

Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman goes AWOL

Following a dispute with his band and a cancellation of tour dates with The Cult and The Mission, Killing Joke…

Queens of Rock: Chthonic’s Doris Yeh

Fighting for human rights and serving as leader of Taiwanese symphonic-metal band Chthonic would be solid enough as a day…

Download “101 South,” electro innovator Amon Tobin’s dance-hop return as Two Fingers

Using the Two Fingers moniker for his more straightforward, beat-driven material, sample wizard Amon Tobin has a new instrumental cut…

Total bullshit: Russian punk-rock band Pussy Riot on trial for “punk prayer” performance

Three members of Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot face up to seven years in prison for staging an impromptu…

Review: The Locust’s Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs

Take a grindcore/power-violence base and add sci-fi synths, brilliant costumes, and humorous/asinine song titles, and boom: The Locust. If you're…

Meshuggah on dubstep and making listeners “cry in the shower”

Tomas Haake and Jens Kidman of Meshuggah speak to Scion AV about the metallic qualities of dubstep and the band's…

Dark synths from Dublin: stream No Spill Blood’s Street Meat EP

Featuring members of Adebisi Shank, Elk, and more, No Spill Blood is a dark synth-rock band (with serious low end)…

You be the DJ: Feistodon’s “A Commotion”

Mastodon and Feist’s split seven-inch is finally available digitally as of today. Even better: you can watch the new tag-team…

Indie-hop trio Why? comes down with Mumps, Etc.

Following its announcement of the Sod in the Seed EP -- out August 14 on Anticon -- indie-hop trio Why?…