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Cracker may be considered a somewhat traditional rock band , yet singer/guitarist David Lowery's roots are anything but traditional, since he fronted the '80s alternative outfit Camper Van Beethoven.

"I live in a city called Chicago," belts out Andrew Francis, "and it's a hard ol' place to call home." The 28-year-old's foot-stomping protest songs capture the angst of Chicago's neighborhoods.

DF barrels eastward down the 10 freeway and through the San Gabriel Valley. Losanjealous recedes into the distance, Kellogg Hill looms ahead on the horizon.

There's one thing you can say about the high desert music scene: Nothing's run of the mill.

There are so many festivals nowadays, each trying to be bigger and better than the next, that these often over-corporate special events just don't seem, well, that "special" anymore.

Dr. Eugene Chadbourne, who moved from New York to Greensboro, N.C., in 1980 to raise his family, has chased music down unexpected rabbit holes for the last 30 years.

Tantramar by saxophonist Joel Miller keeps reminding me of the lyrics to "Life is Grand" by the rock band Camper Van Beethoven: "And life is grand, And I will say this at the risk of falling from favor, With ...

A most appropriate musical video could have emerged from Camper Van Beethoven's Aug.

Only one band has the distinction of writing a song about getting skinheads off a front lawn by taking them bowling and creating an experimental track-by-track remake of Fleetwood Mac's iconic double-album ...

Johnny Hickman readily admits that Cracker, the band he started 17 years ago with David Lowery, has exceeded his expectations.

Imagine a forest filled with bandits biding their time for a heist. Roaring Camp's 1800s steam trains will be 'robbed' each time they reach the summit of Bear Mountain as shootouts, duels and other ...

Tickets are now on sale for the fourth annual Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven Campout, Sept.

Everclear's sound reflected the rock, post-punk, and singer/songwriter influences of frontman Alexakis, including acts like X, the Replacements, the Pixies, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Elvis Costello.

Cracker, featuring David Lowery, right, will perform a free Ninth Street Summerfest concert Wednesday night in front of The Blue Note.

As the warmly distorted opening chord slowly rings out on "Hello Blood," the opening track of We Versus the Shark's latest offering, "Dirty Versions," so also ends the most accessible portion of the record.

Cracker played Saturday night at the U.S. Cellular Stage at Summerfest. Published July 6, 2008 at 3:46 a.m. Tags: cracker , summerfest , david lowery I remember the first time I heard the voice of David Lowery, ...

You might have heard of these guys. If you haven't, then there's something seriously missing from your record collection - how about seven studio albums and three EPs of classic indie punk rock in the past 25 ...

Camper Van Beethoven compiled IE On 25th June 2008 @ 14:27 In Weekly , Spins Camper Van Beethoven don't loom.

Busy week, both at the day job and this moonlighting blogger gig. This week is full of all kinds of tastiness, between the US release of critics darling Hercules and Love Affair self-titled release to the ...

THE QUEER ISSUE Call it a harmonic convergence of two queer legends of indie rock and queercore .