Tag Archives: Dan Kaufman

The term “eclectic” doesn’t quite commence to cover the diversity of styles and influences which come together within the Brooklyn-based ensemble Barbez. The band’s lineup carries a virtuoso theremin participant, a percussionist manning a marimba, and a person who conjures sounds from a PalmPilot. The group’s repertoire contains Russian folk …

Unless your band was active co-opting the rebellious teenage male hip-hop demographic for the purpose of propagating noxious, formulaic nu-metal, 1990s America was a hardcore, hard place for rock bands to thrive and survive in. With hardly any exceptions (Pantera, Program of a Down), a lot of the groupings that …