POSTED // May 3,2012 - Fabulous things are happening on Main Street in Park City. Kathryn Burns is resurrecting the late Harry O’s space into a “fabulous nightclub” ...

POSTED // May 3,2012 - His friend spent a few hours on the outer rings of Saturn, but Braden McKenna won’t describe the landscape he was transported to after ingesting hallucinogenic mushrooms while listening to Free Magick.

POSTED // May 3,2012 - “Let’s Go Surfing” is so terribly deceptive. The track, which appears on The Drums’ Summertime! EP (2009) and their self-titled debut LP (2010), yielded the first burst of attention for the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based band

POSTED // Apr 26,2012 - For a guys’ night out, Cody Christensen wears a cardigan and tie rather than a Utah Jazz jersey; instead of nachos and beer, he and his friends eat tiny cupcakes and drink Pinot Noir as they hobnob with world-class classical musicians.

POSTED // Apr 19,2012 - “Woahmen chi ba,” Luke Williams says over dim sum. It translates to “Let’s eat”—it’s the only Mandarin phrase the multi-instrumentalist in Matteo, a Chinese-American hybrid folk band, knows.

POSTED // Apr 19,2012 - Before the advent of music-suggestion services like Pandora or Last.fm, the best way to find new music was to consult with the foggy-eyed clerk at your local record store. Now that independent record

POSTED // Apr 19,2012 - We don’t bat an eye when a young starlet shaves her head, poses nearly nude at age 15 or appears in rehab as often as she does in the tabloids. But when an indie band matures in the public eye, we’re not sure how to react. We expect them to know who they are, and to sing about it so we can identify with them.

POSTED // Apr 12,2012 - Musicians rarely have a one-on-one experience with listeners, whether playing at a bar or in that they're not there when someone has headphones on.

POSTED // Apr 12,2012 - It takes balls—big ones—to pack your instruments and zero cash and see if you can make it from California to New York on your music alone.

POSTED // Apr 10,2012 - Frontman Tyler Glenn sings “Hey baby, won’t you look my way/ I can be your new addiction” on lead single “Everybody Talks" ...