In their very first podcast, co-publishers Jackson Ellis and Nate Pollard demonstrate exactly how they became the media barons that they are today. Also, hear [...]

In the first installment of the Nate and Jackson series, Nate and Jackson document the real-life story of how they decided to do a comic book.

Elizabeth Fraser. The name alone conjures up flashbacks of the neon-spewing Eighties synth and New Wave. The Cocteau Twins breakup broke hearts in 1997, but [...]

Awkward and Definition, Touchstone, 133 pages,  softcover, $15.00 Potential, Touchstone, 224 pages, softcover, $15.00 Likewise, Touchstone, 359 pages, softcover, $16.00 In the summer of 1995, at [...]

In music there are often projects loaded with ambition and good ideas that, despite all the roadblocks, get pulled off with impressive solidarity. The Rentals’ Songs [...]

You love video games, and you love metal, and you love what happens when the two are combined. Metroid Metal is a collection of high-energy [...]

Basia Bulat’s Heart of My Own, “folk music from the hills,” is aptly titled as it is pure, untarnished, and from the heart. Bulat’s soulful ballads of heartache and heartbreak filtered through a wailing, strong, classic female voice (dare I compare her to Joni Mitchell?) make this album one for the charts.

Hailing from gauzier side of San Francisco’s very distinctive music scene, Metropolis recording artists Veil Veil Vanish are set to release their debut album Change [...]

I guess in the name of full disclosure I should start off by mentioning that I am a former resident of New Orleans. I moved [...]

On March 23, Radar Brothers will release The Illustrated Garden. Jim Putnam has found a new band of brothers in bass player Be Hussey and [...]

It could be said that 2008 was a turbulent year for the high-energy act from Toronto, Ontario. Releasing the highly successful album The Chemistry of [...]

New Orleans is a city defined by its unique and colorful history. It’s for that reason that most tend to view the place as something [...]

Xiu Xiu is an experimental indie rock band originally from and currently based in Oakland, California. The band is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, [...]

Intertwining melodic harmonies with a retro electronic new wave sound, Cale Park’s newest EP combines a wide range of musical influences throughout it’s six tracks. [...]

I’m so fucking tired of all you vagina-heads sending me email after email accusing me of selling out now that my comic doesn’t feature rape and sandwiches every other month. If you think you can do a better job, then get to it.