“Folk music” is a term used loosely these days; hard to differentiate as something feasibly unique to its own genre — “folk” pertains to a [...]

With the release of her latest album Victorian America, Emily Jane White has a lot to be happy about. Just returning from a successful European [...]

Siren Fest on Coney Island, NY was one of those can’t-miss events this summer. The weather was gorgeous and the lineup of bands was fantastic. Everyone played their asses off and had a great time. Screaming Females performed, and during Ted Leo & the Pharmacists’ set Marissa Paternoster hopped on stage with him.

So much has already been said about The Flaming Lips’ live shows. It’s a little like the summer of 1999 when all anyone could ask [...]

Antony and the Johnsons are releasing their fourth album, Swanlights, on October 12th in the US via Secretly Canadian. Abrams Image is going to simultaneously [...]

“So here’s to our sleepless nights and singalongs/to the new kids and the old ones, this is our night and our show/the love once shared, [...]

Mohawk Place in Buffalo, NY is one of those clubs that brings back great memories of showing up at back alley music halls to see [...]

Show openers Rubik and David Bazan have just finished sets that stand firmly at opposing poles of rock, and now the MewithoutYou crew ambles nonchalantly on stage, checking tunings and asking for last-minute monitor tweaks. A surprisingly clean-cut Aaron Weiss adjusts his awkward, oversized glasses, shifts his acoustic guitar, and they launch into “The Fox, the Crow, and the Cookie” off their newest record, It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All a Dream! It’s Alright.

Amanda “Fucking” Palmer, front-woman of The Dresden Dolls, recently parted ways with her record label. She’s celebrating her new-found musical independence with the release of [...]

Tool has the art of blowing minds down to a science. They know what they’re doing, and at this point they have enough funds to put on one hell of a show. I attended their concert at Key Arena in Seattle, which has never been my favorite venue, but they turned the whole place into a psychedelic wonderland of swirling images and lasers. It was gorgeous!

Alison Sudol is the singer/songwriter behind A Fine Frenzy. A surprisingly soft spoken, demure individual for a front woman, she’d rather curl up with a [...]

The concert took place at the Sleep Country Amphitheater, which is located in the state of Washington about 20 minutes north of Portland. The amphitheater is one of those big concert venues that have popped up all over the US in the past decade or so. There’s a covered seating area as well seating on the lawn, and the venue’s top capacity is 18,000.

The world may not recognize it now, but I think it’s only a matter of time before Chuck D is recognized as hip-hop’s official chairperson. [...]

“This place is beautiful” said Matt Berninger, right after his band sauntered through Boxer (2007) favorite “Start a War,” and he was right. Spreckels Theatre has always been one of San Diego’s primary classical establishments; in fact, the baroque embellishments and marble statues give it a flat-out regal feel — which is not exactly the type of ambiance rock bands are equipped to embrace, but The National’s melancholy, yuppie-blind stigma really brings out the white-collarness of it al

Mike Patton is best known for his role as the lead singer of Faith No More and his work with Tomahawk and Fantomas. On his [...]