Rock music often looks at the tensions between man and machine, sometimes casting technology as a force that takes the humanity out of the songs, reducing musicians to cogs in the OK Computer. Read more...

At the Verizon Music Festival’s first event on July 24 the stage was set ““ literally ““ for a night of comic irony. After all, what stranger way to kick-off a festival sponsored and named after a corporate behemoth than with a performance by Aimee Mann, who’s possibly made more headlines for her solitary battle against the music industry than for her actual artistic accomplishments? Read more...

A wedding is a joyous occasion ““ the union of two souls, forever joined in holy matrimony. An “American Wedding,” as it turns out, is a bit more complicated. Read more...

Mike Figgis sits in a canopied square in the Farmers’ Market on 3rd Street and Fairfax Avenue wearing sunglasses, suggesting that perhaps he prefers watching people without them knowing it. Read more...

Busted flat in San Jose, about to miss my plane. I was feeling nearly as faded as my jeans. Well, we hadn’t exactly busted flat, but from the driver’s shop-talk lingo, I couldn’t tell exactly how our car had gone from 75 to zero miles per hour on the old Highway-17 North. Read more...

By Andrew Lee dB MAGAZINE Senior Staff [email protected] When singer/songwriter Tim DeLaughter was a teenager, he played in his obligatory rock bands, groups not too sonically distanced from Tripping Daisy ““ his act of eight years that made some noise during the height of 90s alternative. Read more...

Christopher O’Riley “True Love Waits” Odessey One of the most telling testaments to Radiohead’s songwriting skill is the serious attention they have garnered from musicians in fields not commonly known for eager acceptance of rock music as a serious genre. Read more...