Before spring spreads its wings once more and everyone gets all bubbly and beat-happy, let's make the most of the wintry world we're currently immerse...
Canadian synth-rockers Metric are five albums into a rich career, and only getting better. And while frontwoman Emily Haines has dealt with the sort...
After a decade-plus spent on New York’s crepuscular cabaret scene through the '90s, singer Antony Hegarty began to make his way towards the light. H...
Joseph Arthur ’s talents as a singer-songwriter have sometimes gone under the radar. While he’s long been cited as a favorite of musicians you probabl...
If you’re not particularly fond of foreign cars, krautrock is arguably Germany's finest export of the past century. There’s an unwritten rule that say...
Elijah Blue may be the child of pop and rock royalty (his parents are Cher and Gregg Allman), but from his work with turn of the century synth-rock ou...
Today the world gets its first full glimpse of Americana , Neil Young’s first album with Crazy Horse since 2003’s quirky anarcho/enviro-conceptual ef...
With a string of TV and film credits that extends back to the 1998 television series V.I.P. , Andrea von Foerster’s over 12 years of music supervisi...
There’s no denying that the Decemberists are the reigning royal family of the lit-rock realm. A recent study by the firm of Howe/Dewey/Dewitt estima...
As frontman for the Bongos, the poster boys of ‘80s indie-rock’s Hoboken Sound, Richard Barone taught the world a new way to rock, marrying ‘60s pop i...
"Talk about eclectic!" proclaimed the papa behind me to his teenaged progeny as the lights went up at New York's annual Tibet House Benefit at Carnegi...
Music is ubiquitous and confusing. Twice a month, Eric Spitznagel stares into the bottomless chasm of new (and old) songs, albums and musicians that p...
Oxnard, Calif. band Sea Lions sound appropriately West Coast: The fivesome, formed by musician Adrian Pillado in 2007, craft jangly, punky indie pop t...
The year 2011 is quickly, sadly, drawing to a close. Except it's not sad! We're moving ahead with the speed of an iPhone 4S! And before you let separa...
Dating back to the Harry Truman presidency, one of our weirder political traditions is the pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey by the President of t...
