When the cello is heard in pop music, it’s usually to provide solemn accompaniment to a poignant ballad, be it the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” or Nirvana’s “All Apologies.” In the hands of Melora Creager ...

Drawn to “creepy things” since childhood, Melora Creager wrote her first song, which was about Lizzie Borden chopping up her mom, at the age of five. The tune featured stabbing piano chords to capture ...

The nice ladies in Rasputina had just finished playing “Transylvanian Concubine” on their cellos when they tore into a rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll.” By the time bandleader Melora ...

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What do Mary Shelley, Osama bin Laden and the Bounty mutineers have in common? Nothing. Unless you’re Brooklyn’s Rasputina. The chamber-rock mavericks that made cello cool again bring these (and other ...

There was a time when a cello in a rock arrangement was practically a novelty. A cello may have provided the beating heart of the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby,” and iconoclasts like Eno, Nick Drake, David ...

[Rasputina's Melora Creager, the undisputed doyenne of cello-based, kinda-goth, steampunk-avant-la-lettre indie music, has graciously agreed to guest-blog for West Coast Sound in anticipation of their ...

Back in the Summer of 2007 Rasputina (the brainschild of cellist Melora Creager) released their sixth studio full-length effort, entitled Oh Perilous World. While Creager wrote all of the songs on the ...

IT is almost as if the "chamber-rock trio" Rasputina have listened to the most testing moments of Joanna Newsom and Bjork and concluded 'OK, but it's just not strange enough'. Wandering yet further ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Led by cellist virtuoso Melora Creager, Rasputina will perform at Crossroads Music Hall Saturday beginning at 10 p.m. with Canadian folk-ensemble Wilderness of Manitoba opening.