This unexpected folk-rock orchestra materialized out of Albuquerque, but they might as well have slipped through an intergalactic portal or stowed away on a derelict spacecraft before crash landing in the desert. Dust City Opera tell harrowing tales of sadness, madness, and mishaps. With each performance illuminating the space between...

Without doubt or qualification, The Sadies are one of this continent's greatest extant rock 'n' roll bands--just as they have been for the last quarter-century. Versatile and imaginative, they skip from astral psychedelia to shuffling bucolics and leap from puckish pop to righteous garage-rock without losing momentum or mastery. Their...