The Austin Lounge Lizards have gotten a lot of attention lately for their song "Why Couldn't We Blow Up Saddam?" It's just the latest in a long line of quirky lyrics the group has set to a ...

There has always been a strong element of theater in singer David Johansen`s many pop and rock personalities. And his most recent incarnation, as the lounge lizard Buster Poindexter, seems a logical ...

***** The Lounge Lizards, Voice of Chunk (Lagarto): Sax player John Lurie calls his Lounge Lizards’ music “fake jazz,” but it’s more arresting and original than much of what passes for “real jazz” ...

Last month, crews completed demolition on the Steak and Ale restaurant on Coliseum Drive in Hampton. Why is this worth some ink in a column about music? Because this was precisely the place where ...

Country music, by it’s very nature, has never been a refuge for progressive thinking. When Merle Haggard sang, “I’m proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,” he basically summed up the reactionary, ...