Graham Bertie wishes that he hadn't missed the rise of YouTube. When the video-sharing site was rapidly ascending to cultural ubiquity in the mid-to-late '00s, he was too swamped with touring...

Electric Tickle Machine's ascent out of nowhere is impressive. The ease with which the New York City band scored on-air time at Seattle's respected radio station KEXP...

Eric Gilbert, Lisa Simpson, and Cameron Bouiss first played together in other groups as music majors at the University of Idaho.

The last time Dinosaur Jr. came through town, their gig didn’t exactly sell out. Drummer Emmett Patrick Murphy aka Murph is optimistic that their return on Halloween will be worth the stop ...

Though their name refers to a mustachioed celluloid villain, Fu Manchu are more like Jeff Spicoli, Ron Slater, and David Wooderson. They symbolize the older, ostensibly cooler, dudes we grew up around

It might be a little-known fact, but independent hip-hop does exist in this town— and Utah emcee Virtue embodies its impassioned spirit. Formerly known as Skinny G, Virtue changed his name to so

The vicious curbing portrayed in the film American History X is about the last thing you’d expect to free associate with Will Sartain, a local artist, concert promoter and club owner often seen

Bands accustomed to being radio staples and selling out Saddledomes up North don't often know what will happen once they cross the border.

Hoboken's finest, the indie-rock band Yo La Tengo, are grappling with a quandary--one that plagued Sonic Youth when they, too surpassed the two-decade mark.

War can produce miserable results. Just ask Red Fang, whose video for their tuneful stampede of stoner metal, "Prehistoric Dog," depicts the rockers starting a vicious rivalry culminating in an epic, bitter battle.