Move over, Baroness: Your title of strangest album of the year has been forfeited. In fact, if Baroness's accomplished work was a Greek god, then Swan's The Seer is surely the primordial titan Cronus, ...

One of the first things you learn in any decent art school is that storytelling is a three-part affair. From script-writing ...

In August, Swans released “The Seer,” a two-hour, two-CD set that puts campfire acoustic songs against sprawling, biting guitarscapes that featured guest appearances from Low and Karen O of the Yeah ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...