"It sounds like a Spoon album," is how a friend described Spoon's latest full length They Want My Soul. And, for the most part, she's right. It's ...
> > A strong cup of black coffee. Not stale diner coffee -- unfussy, small batch, brewed-with-love coffee. That's what comes to my mind when I l...
> "This morning I woke up on the floor / thinking I had never dreamed before," sings Wye Oak vocalist Jenn Wasner on "Before," the opening track to ...
> The music industry can be a difficult business. An artist can write great songs but still not find the audience they deserve. For example, despi...
> Ornate, well-crafted and subtle, it's easy to find a lot to like on Hundred Waters' latest album The Moon Rang Like A Bell. Vocalist/lyricist Nicole...
> In a letter Sharon Van Etten drafted to accompany pre-orders of her latest album, Are We There, she describes the record as "very much me, bein...
> Samuel T. Herring was sitting alone backstage at the Hype Hotel at SXSW shirtless and, unsurprisingly, drenched in an impressive amount of sweat....
> I suppose it should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the band that the new Woods album is great. After all, they've developed a rep...
> Boston's Quilt (Anna Fox Rochinski, Shane Butler and John Andrews) have long demonstrated a knack for thoughtfully constructed psych-folk jams bui...
> What we've always loved about Wooden Shjips is the way the Portland/San Francisco-based psych-rockers can capture a groove and ride it off into th...
> The War On Drugs, the Philadelphia-led project of Adam Granduciel, are one of those bands that seem to get better with each successive album. Thei...