POSTED // Sep 13,2012 - In 1997, at the tail end of the East Coast/West Coast rap rivalry that consumed the mid-’90s, a little-known Minnesota crew named Atmosphere released their first album, a word-of-mouth effort titled Overcast!

POSTED // Sep 13,2012 - When you have at least six full-time jobs and one is trying to change the world, do you sleep? “Yeah,” Henry Rollins says. “At least five hours. That’s kind of what you get during the workweek.

POSTED // Sep 6,2012 - He cites Harlem Renaissance poets—like Nikki Giovanni, Alain LeRoy Locke, James Baldwin...

POSTED // Sep 6,2012 - Since then, Lightning Bolt's reputation as a preeminent live outfit has been their most attractive trait.

POSTED // Aug 31,2012 - “You must surrender the sickness of wanting to be creative to a higher power,” said Nashville songwriter Jason Deere at Soundcheck Series’ latest workshop Aug. 8 at Metcom Studios in Salt Lake City.

POSTED // Aug 30,2012 - Oliver Wood is surrounded by a sea of boxes and packing peanuts. Things are in a bit of disarray as his family settles into their Nashville, Tenn., home of three weeks.

POSTED // Aug 30,2012 - Now paired as Eagle Twin, the duo has already released their sophomore album.

POSTED // Aug 23,2012 - Musicians love beer, and beer, well, loves music. It’s a heavenly match—the two elevate each other for a bubbly aural affair.

POSTED // Aug 23,2012 - In many ways, Built to Spill is the little engine that could of indie rock—there from the beginning of the genre in the early ’90s, plugging away one album after another.

POSTED // Aug 16,2012 - Caleb Chapman tells the Crescent Super Band not to look like a high school band. Yet, peering through the recording-booth window at the 22 members’ horseplay and banter between takes at Digital Force Studio