POSTED // Apr 29,2009 - Every time Jonny Bell sings it sounds like he's just passed a kidney stone, or smashed his fist through a plate-glass window ...

POSTED // Apr 22,2009 - Not to go all Seventeen on you, but The Thermals are totally crush-worthy. Sorry, but “awesome” and “energetic” don’t quite encapsulate the Portland trio’s dynamic performances ...

POSTED // Apr 15,2009 - Karli Fairbanks sounds like she's been down this road before'and that one and that one, too! The Spokane artist is young in years but brings a wise-and-weary old-soul quality to her expansive folk music.

POSTED // Apr 8,2009 - Plus: Glasvegas, Von Iva, The Presets, Travis & John Nemeth

POSTED // Apr 1,2009 - SATURDAY 4.4ANGUS & JULIA STONEAngus and Julia Stone are siblings, just so you don’t imagine the pair singing to each other on their most romantic songs. It’s easy to get swept up in t

POSTED // Mar 25,2009 - There's a whole lot going on in Maps & Atlases' sound, but unlike other so-called math rockers, the Chicago band's richly textured melodies are hardly impenetrable.

POSTED // Mar 18,2009 - In 2002, four Park City High School whippersnappers had a dream, filthy mouths and rudimentary filmmaking skills. Ryen Schlegel, Andy Bauman, Jeff Guay and City Weekly contributor Ryan Bradford went on to make humorous, well-produced shorts—always entertaining, and often absurd—on a shoestring budget.

POSTED // Mar 18,2009 - It started with the dream of an unconventional honeymoon and blossomed into a multifaceted humanitarian-aid project stretching from Ghana to England and Utah.

POSTED // Mar 18,2009 - For his full-length debut as Indian Headset, Ryan Shoeck wisely skipped any production bells and whistles that might have scrubbed down the raw intimacy of his quiet folk and lo-fi country blues.

POSTED // Mar 18,2009 - Breakfast at Sulimays is an online show operating out of a Philadelphia diner starring three seniors doing cutthroat reviews of contemporary music.