The Hustler

Andrew Whiteman of Apostle of Hustle, the subject of this profile in the April 19 Westword, is among the brighter singer-songwriters on the current scene, as the complete text of his interview indicates. Below, read about his first musical influences, a little-known poetry album that didn’t exactly fly off the…

Multiplying the Cube

This week’s Westword contains a profile of Goes Cube, a surprisingly heavy Brooklyn band on the rise. But the print edition only allowed a small portion of guitarist/vocalist David Obuchowski’s funny, incisive and revealing comments to be included. Below, find the entire interview, conducted while Obuchowski was throwing T-shirts in…

Bar Band of the Week

When a band has a name like Wicked Grin, you expect to see burned-out relics from the Revlon era rockin’ the spandex and skullets, churning out half-baked versions of everyone’s favorite cock-rock anthems. The material this act has chosen to replicate hails from a later decade but is no less…