Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

Music | HIGH NOTES Jul 30, 2003

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

by Philip Brasor

New Jersey native Ted Leo, who learned his trade in the East Coast hardcore scene of the late '80s, has been toiling as an indie idol in the Washington D.C. underground for more than a decade, first fronting Chisel, which prefigured the current mod-punk ...

Alex Sipiagin

Music | HIGH NOTES Jul 30, 2003

Alex Sipiagin

by Michael Pronko

Jazz was one of the best-kept secrets of communist Russia, officially suppressed but actually flourishing in underground clubs, bootleg studios and on pirate radio stations. Fortunately for music fans, trumpeter Alex Sipiagin heard enough to become one of Russia's premier jazz players and to ...