POSTED // Apr 7,2011 - It’s just so apropos: The Joy Formidable make their grand entrance into the full-length playing field with a record titled The Big Roar.

POSTED // Feb 15,2011 - Based on sundry articles penned about Eric Elbogen, Say Hi’s creator and sole permanent member, he’s an inert character whose minutiae make for great material ...

POSTED // Feb 1,2011 - 2005 marked an all-time low for The Get Up Kids, and the Kansas City band called it quits...

POSTED // Nov 30,2010 - Austin has flourished into an especially fertile locale for psychedelic rock. The contemporary scene’s pre-eminent band is The Black Angels, and with good reason.

POSTED // Nov 25,2010 - Judah Dadone appears to invest a lot of thought into things. The Freelance Whales vocalist and multi-instrumentalist answers questions...

POSTED // Nov 16,2010 - In mid-2007, a small company called Freedom in Exile put out Bear Hands’ Golden EP, making it the first release of a band that had formed only a year prior ...

POSTED // Nov 4,2010 - Somewhere amid the agitated, snare-driven beat of “Drumroll,” rapper P.O.S. makes room for a shout-out. “Trust in absolutely fucking nothing but Doomtree/ Step up your thought game, lame...”

POSTED // Oct 21,2010 - Album titles rarely get more nuanced than Big Echo. The name of The Morning Benders’ sophomore LP, issued in March on Rough Trade, works on a handful of levels.

POSTED // Sep 28,2010 - Would you risk your well-being to keep a phone interview going? The sane answer, of course, is no, but Valient Himself is ...

POSTED // Aug 26,2010 - If you’re unfamiliar with Missouri and are hearing about Ha Ha Tonka for the first time, the band’s name probably sounds like nonsense ...