DeVotchKa creates 'big drunken tuba party'

With accordion, theremin, bouzouki, sousaphone, violin, horns and upright bass pumping away, the Denver-based rock quartet creates an Old World bizarre. ...more

Von Bondies plan to rock out Omaha with new music

With the record industry in full meltdown, Stollsteimer is looking for a new label to put out "Love, Hate and Then There's You," an already recorded disc, and he’s taking his time. ...more

Record review: Matmos, "Supreme Balloon"

If the long-running electronic duo Matmos - Martin Schmidt and Drew Daniel - has veered toward arty abstraction in the past, its seventh album is a pleasant surprise. ...more

Record review: Head of Femur, "Great Plains"

The transplanted Nebraskans turned Chicagoans who make up the core of the sprawling left-of-center pop band have tightened up their sometimes over-stuffed sound without sacrificing the “where did that come fr ...more

Record review: No Age, "Nouns"

Arriving less than a year after Rippers, Nouns is every bit as visceral, unpolished and explosive, and only a tad more compromising. ...more

SPEED! Nebraska hosts Spring Nationals

Instead, the races will be run on a Hot Wheels track that will be set up at Box Awesome on Saturday night. And the races actually will take place between the performances of four SPEED! Nebraska bands - Ideal Cleaner ...more

Indecision progresses in sound and equipment

The guys laugh at themselves now, nearly two years after playing their first song inside the Scott Village dorms at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. They keep a stock of home videos to remind them of their ...more

Welcome to the next British Invasion ... of women

Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen may have jump-started this so-called British Invasion. But Duffy and others are mapping out their own paths from Europe to the U.S. ...more

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