POSTED // Mar 29,2012 - Taking their name from two of music history’s most famous “second bananas,” Los Angeles’ Garfunkel & Oates sing about everything from politics to sex, bringing a witty and hilarious perspective to all of life’s little mishaps.

POSTED // Mar 22,2012 - “I have anger-management issues,” Sharon Van Etten confesses. If you’re unfamiliar with the young New Jersey singer-songwriter’s pretty, doleful music, you might get the wrong impression.

POSTED // Mar 22,2012 - Cumulatively, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Who have been cited by bands as influences for their records approximately 34 million times.

POSTED // Mar 20,2012 - When Rick Welter died Monday, March 12, his name was sadly added to all of the legends commemorated in the chorus of Art Neville’s “Six Strings Down” ...

POSTED // Mar 15,2012 - In a world of Kickstarter campaigns and musical ego-stroking, McKay Stevens shows sagacity. He’s invested in social responsibility and community—the two tenets that he’s banking on for his delicately balanced career in rock.

POSTED // Mar 15,2012 - If there's such a thing as a classic indie-rock sound, it's emulated on Girls' new record, which is filled with brilliant songwriting and arrangements

POSTED // Mar 13,2012 - Not heading to Austin, Texas, this week for music’s spring break—South by Southwest, the annual music, film and interactive festival and conference?

POSTED // Mar 8,2012 - Within the past year, local three-piece Dwellers have made a rapid ascent—not because their music touches listeners’ hearts, but because it hits their guts, with the band’s self-branded bunch of “gut rock”—decisive—tunes.

POSTED // Mar 8,2012 - The men of Mr. Dream live in a dump. Technically, it’s an apartment, but it feels more like a cramped, grime-ridden hell—a hovel where rats roam freely,

POSTED // Mar 6,2012 - Trevor McFedries, 26, is a creator; the Los Angeles native has his hands in almost everything.