AESOP ROCK: NONE SHALL PASS (DEFINITIVE JUX) *** There's something in Aesop Rock's voice that suggests he's just about to call you a jerk or worse. The Long Island rapper's tone and cadence is a natural for long, taut rhymes full of withering put-downs. ...more

November 23, 2007

Tampa band Zillionaire features three former members of The Washdown. But where that band's rock tended toward the short, sharp and direct, Zillionaire's sound is more suggestive, atmospheric and at times a little sinister. ...more

November 1, 2007

Singer-songwriter John Gorka kicks off this season's Club Jaeb at TBPAC, a series of acoustic-music concerts held in the intimate setting of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's Jaeb Theater. ...more

October 15, 2007

Hank Williams. Patsy Cline. Alan Jackson. Martina McBride. And now, Josh Turner. ...more

October 1, 2007

Shooter Jennings will make his Grand Ole Opry debut this week, a performance he hopes will kick off a smoother relationship with the historical country music show than his father had. ...more

September 23, 2007

Akron/Family is a band and nothing more, Dana Janssen is quick to explain. 'Really, it's not any sort of religion,' Janssen says by telephone from his boyhood home in rural Pennsylvania. ...more

September 7, 2007