Armand Margjeka was born in Tropoja, an Albanian town at the foot of the Alps. “Tropoja was one of the most isolated villages in an isolated country,” Margjeka says. The communist regime he grew up with was oppressive,...
HalfDown Thomas: Sel...
posted by Stuart Morrison
From the Alabama based band’s album Beautifully Strange HalfDown Thomas’s third album was blown away by Hurricane Katrina. Literally. The band, which hails from the sleepy little backwoods town of Cullman,...
O+S: We Do What We W...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
O+S is a new project by Orenda Fink (Azure Ray, Art In Manila) and Scalpelist (aka Cedric LeMoyne of Remy Zero). Orenda and Scalpelist, long-time friends from their shared hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, have created a...
IR: The SoCal Sessio...
posted by Charles Stepczyk
This session has a French title although it was probably butchered by the Babel Fish free translator to mean something completely offensive. In a perfect world it should roughly translate to ‘Female Musicians of...