Diamanda Galas

On the wall, a grid of album covers: Led Zeppelin II, Cash, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz celebrating the sonic verve of Cuba y Puerto Rico Son. Below this, a row of new and used CDs: punk, heavy metal, soul and Motown,...

OCTOBER Today -- Velvet Revolver, Alice in Chains, Sparta, 7 p.m. SoundAd. Today -- Boys Like Girls, All Time Low, The Audition, We The Kings, 7:30 p.m. Revo. Today -- Patti LuPone, 8 p.m. Carnival. Today -- Yellowjackets, 8:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. Sandoval....

Look out, Baby Boomers, the classics are coming to rock you like a hip replacement. Except for Beatlemania (March 8, Coral Springs Center for the Arts), classic rock tributes used to be the purview of bar bands. But bars are noisy and, if you can't...

Tool "10,000 Days" Sony/Volcano For fans of: A Perfect Circle, Deftones, Dream Theater Just when it seemed inconceivable that Tool could tap into another realm of stimulating sophistication, the group returns from five years in some obscure nebula...

As the interview begins, Diamanda Galas declares that she is going to war. This is not good news for her booking agency, the current subject of her wrath. Her music-industry accomplices are getting cold feet as she prepares to bring her dense, demanding...

Tribune: If you hadn't become musicians, what would you have done for a living? Kirilola, eX-Girl: For a living, we would have become birds. The story of eX-Girl, according to the band's official biography, goes something like this: Three young women...

Friday August 25, 1995      Imagine Charles Manson, possessed of supernatural powers, locked in combat with Philip Marlowe and you'll have some idea of stylish horrormeister Clive Barker's latest blood-and-guts thriller, "Lord of Illusions."      It's...