It's always fascinating to hear what Zach Hill, one of our most lyrical, inventive, and most technically gifted drummers, does with his Vinnie Colaiuta-indebted strain of progressive timekeeping and…   Read Story »

June's started on a hot streak: It made sense to counter the sweat by opening this Monthly Mix of recent standout free MP3s with a few chillier tracks. You don't want to hide out in the air…   Read Story »

In 2007 I wrote a brief, less-than-positive review of Hella's There's No 666 In Outer Space, the record where the Sacramento noise-rock duo expanded to a quintet and started sounding like a rootsy…   Read Story »

Hella active drummer Zach Hill's in (and has been in) more bands than you want to try to list, but we've most recently caught him helping out Boredoms and Marnie Stern and toughening up Wavves (more…   Read Story »

Omar Rodríguez-López has a new band. The Mars Volta songwriter/multi-instrumentalist is calling it El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodríguez-López because it rolls off the tongue but he could also call it…   Read Story »

Zach Hills brings a lot to Marnie Stern's This Is It.... On his own recent solo album The Astrological Straits, he in turn benefits from the help of his friends, including Stern (and Les Claypool,…   Read Story »

Zach Hill plays drums in Hella, opposite Mick Barr (who's new metal band Krallice is great, by the way) on Shred Earthship and Volume 2, with Marilyn Manson's Twiggy Ramirez in Goon Moon, and behind…   Read Story »