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Jazz Drum Prodigy Justin Faulkner is Ready for the Big Timenew

Justin Faulkner played his first gig professionally at 13, but by that time he'd already been playing the drums for more than a decade, ever since his mother brought an Ohio Arts "Rock the World" toy kit back to their West Philly home.

Philadelphia City Paper | Shaun Brady | 08-11-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Justin Faulkner, Philadelphia, jazz, drummers

Secret 'Stache: The Passion and Pop of John Oatesnew

John Oates' mustache has become a pop-culture phenomenon almost wholly removed from the musician himself. And far from simply indulging an irony-obsessed generation, Oates has jumped on the bandwagon.

Philadelphia City Paper | Shaun Brady | 11-25-2008 | Music

Tags: Hall & Oates, animation, pop culture, Yacht Rock, mustache, J-Stache, John Oates, John Oates Will Fucking Kill You

The Mystery of The Residents Isn't Who They Are -- It's Whynew

Even those who've never heard a single note of Residents music are aware of the iconic top-hatted eyeball heads and the fact that no one knows who's been making that twisted noise for more than 35 years.

Philadelphia City Paper | Shaun Brady | 10-06-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Residents

Guitarist Marc Ribot Reaches for Rock Anarchynew

With his latest project, Ceramic Dog, Ribot set out to strip away all the multiculti influences and get back to basics.

Philadelphia City Paper | Shaun Brady | 09-23-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ceramic Dog, Party Intellectuals

Bassist Todd Sickafoose Walks the Line Between Pitchfork and 'Down Beat'new

Despite his years leading jazz units, first in his native California and more recently in his adopted home of Brooklyn, Sickafoose is best known as Ani DiFranco's regular bassist, and also tours with folk-jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman.

Philadelphia City Paper | Shaun Brady | 09-02-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: jazz, Cryptogramophone, Tiny Resistors, Todd Sickafoose

Interpreting the Mad Dreams of Fire Museum Recordsnew

"All the music on the label shares a spirit of sonic inquiry, and often times elements that to my mind are psychedelic, as overused as that term has become. I suppose I'm referring to the altered and intensified sensory perception meaning of that word."

Philadelphia City Paper | Shaun Brady | 04-21-2008 | Music

Tags: museum, fire, records

Bow to No Onenew

Katt Hernandez's got an unlovely violin.

Philadelphia City Paper | Shaun Brady | 03-18-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Katt Hernandez, Unlovely

Bootsie Barnes Still Loves a Challengenew

Or, why does a 70-year-old local bebop legend have a folder labeled "Ass-Kickers"?

Philadelphia City Paper | Shaun Brady | 03-11-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Bootsie Barnes

Main Squeezenew

Two artists strike an accord for the unloved accordion.

Philadelphia City Paper | Shaun Brady | 02-26-2008 | Music

Lute and Pillagenew

Dutch experimentalist Jozef van Wissem pirates the past and pisses off the traditionalists.

Philadelphia City Paper | Shaun Brady | 02-05-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Jozef van Wissem

Buy Organicnew

"You sort of make it up as you go along, I guess," Chris Potter says, expressing the fact that improvisation has had as much to do with his long-term planning as it has with his own playing.

Philadelphia City Paper | Shaun Brady | 01-29-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Chris Potter's Underground, Follow the Red Line — Live at the Village Vanguard