Birmingham native Celeste Griffin is returning for a hectic three-concerts-in-three-days sojourn in Alabama on her way from Austin to New York to promote her band Monarch’s third release, The Rise and Fall, including a date this Saturday at Bottletree.

After Birmingham police showed up the night of May 30 and proceeded to open fire on Bessie, Smokey and Mookie, the pet dogs of Cosmo’s Pizza owner Leisa Bunn, the officers said they were responding to

I have to tell you the truth: I did not have the easiest time working my way through the seven tracks from Celeste Griffin’s latest work, Those Words, Those Frames. I reviewed her first CD, Aged in Oa

When I returned to Cuba in April for the Havana Bienal, one of the world’s leading international art exhibitions, I found Señor Adel just where I left him in January, in the kitchen of the house he ke

"Notes on Disease," the first song on the Monarchs’ new EP, Oak, is written with what sounds like the coolest deliberation. The first lyrics come out in a slow drawl, punctuated in almost staccato suc