POSTED // Apr 4,2012 - Twelve seconds. That’s how much time it takes for multi-instrumentalist Luke Wyland to join drummer Dana Valatka on album opener “Epic” ...

POSTED // Feb 21,2012 - It’s strange that, in more than 15 years, New Orleans jazz-funk troupe Galactic is just now getting around to making a Mardi Gras, or Carnival, album.

POSTED // Jan 10,2012 - Cate Le Bon is bringing a welcome breeze of ethereal vocals to our shore with her fresh, new album Cyrk.

POSTED // Nov 10,2011 - The disparate styles of bluegrass and classical are blended with such skillful ease in The Goat Rodeo Sessions it’s a wonder why ...

POSTED // Nov 2,2011 - Thrice has never been a band that's afraid to blaze new paths with their musical style, fully knowing that not all fans would take to the new sound.

POSTED // Oct 11,2011 - The solo career of Rob Crow, founder of Pinback—as well as a number of other non-trivial indie-music assemblages—has been similar to that of ...

POSTED // Sep 6,2011 - Veering off from more familiar folk alleyways, Portland, Ore.-based Blitzen Trapper drives a sonic muscle car onto the rock music highway with their sixth studio album, American Goldwing.

POSTED // Aug 30,2011 - You can count me among the Pavement fanatics who had a hard time getting into Stephen Malkmus’ past couple of albums made with his band The Jicks.

POSTED // Aug 9,2011 - It would be easy to dismiss Mariachi El Bronx as a mere lark by the Los Angeles punk band’s more-prominent alter ego, The Bronx.

POSTED // Jun 28,2011 - If you need any sort of reminder of how significant Buddy Holly was to the early days of rock & roll ...