Cerebral alt-rock band Clem Snide have re-banded to record The Meat of Life, their seventh full-length album. The new record, due February 23, will be released by 429 Records. Chief songwriter Eef ...

“The name is Clem Williamson Snide, I am a private asshole,” begins the private detective protagonist in William Burroughs’ fairly unfamed 1981 effort, Cities of the Red Night. Burroughs’ hero sleuths ...

Let’s be clear: Clem Snide is not the name of any individual. Like “Jethro Tull” or “Pink Floyd,” it was a handle plucked from a somewhat obscure source. In this case, it originated from a character ...

“It’s all an elaborate hoax.” The reported final words of film critic Roger Ebert frame a haunting new song by Clem Snide, the artistic alias of songwriter Eef Barzelay. The track is the first release ...

Clem Snide has had an almost comically fractured history. Formed in 1991, the band broke up not long after, then regrouped and finally released a debut album—the stunning You Were A Diamond—in 1998.

For Clem Snideâ s latest tour, singer/songwriter/guitarist Eef Barzelay has been seeking out unique venues, but the Milwaukee show will be different for another reason. For Clem Snide’s latest tour, ...

One part Oscar Wilde and one part Kermit the Frog, Clem Snide’s Eef Barzalay has a voice all his own. On 2001’s Ghost of Fashion, he trod the thin line between clever and too clever, keeping on the ...