Amish Electric Chair is a DIY punk band from Athens, Ohio. They’re currently signed to Geykido Comet Records and have been touring the East Coast almost constantly since they solidified as a band five years ago. AEC is a powerful trio, made up of brothers Neil Tuuri (guitar/lead vocals) and Eric “Scotty” Tuuri (drums) and [...]

It is soundcheck, and Autry Rene Fulbright, lead singer of Midnight Masses, stands at the edge of the small Union Pool stage on the last night of their residency, the venue nearly packed with hipsters, hip-hoppers, and rockers alike. Fulbright, who has the presence and dressings of a 1950s Motown crooner, releases his mic stand [...]

There’s no doubting that with the times we’re in, everyone is feeling a little more blue collar than they may be used to. But there’s an artist who shines the light on these frustrations and attitudes seldom heard in music: Mike McColgan. Formerly of the Dropkick Murphys, McColgan sings for the Boston-bred punk group Street [...]

James Duke is a soft spoken guy, tall and thin with a broad smile that spreads from ear to ear. He’s the kind of guy who, when asked if he plays the piano, answers with a laugh and says, “That’s a funny question.”
Duke, 21, lives in an apartment on a second-floor loft in Kalamazoo, Michigan, [...]

Lately my friends and I have been making up fake words. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I used the word “fauxpen” around a coworker the other day and everyone thought I was a crazy person. But fauxpen is a great word! It describes someone who pretends they’re super open and honest, but [...]

There are plenty of reasons other than the Winter Olympics to set your sights on the second-largest country in the world right now. Canadian contributions to the indie music scene have always been healthy, but in the last decade they’ve become downright probiotic. Basia Bulat’s holistic presence was first felt two years ago when her [...]

Minor Kingdom mastermind Kristian Melom’s taste is wider than yours. Sure, he specializes in introspective, barely-plucked folk songs, but he’s more than willing to enter the oft-forgotten aisles of the record store.
“Lately I have been listening to a lot of Gillian Welch, Harry Nilsson, Peter Wolf Crier, Erykah Badu, and Al Green to name a [...]

For many years afterward I’d approach this date with deep, dark trepidation, convinced that some sort of disaster was certain to befall me. The one time, though, that an actual disaster happened, I never saw it coming.

It’s hard for a journalist to nail down certain musicians. When an artist defies convention and throws the listener a stylistic curveball, you either find yourself at a total loss of adequate descriptive language, or you pile on the genres and comparisons until the band’s reputation is buried beneath a dung heap of words that [...]

In 1980, Shawn Stern started Youth Brigade with his brothers, Mark and Adam, after a failed attempt of making a skinhead swing band. He later founded Better Youth Organization Records with Mark, which is now considered one of the most important punk record labels.
Youth Brigade’s journey as a band has not been an easy one. [...]

Meghan Wolf is as multifaceted as a sparkly cut gem. She’s one of those artists who simply does it all — she’s a singer/songwriter, guitar and piano player, she has her master’s in fine arts, and she’s an actress to boot! Formerly the lead vocalist of New York No Stars, a punk group based in [...]

Exhausted, Bert leaves the crust of the last pizza slice in the box. With a burp, he ruminates on how his voice must’ve sounded while he was ordering. “Sorry, sir, still catching some static and noise on this end. This phone must really suck or something. Could you please repeat that?” After the girl’s voice [...]

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 About Time is certainly one of these projects.  In the newest release from the famed moog rockers, The Rentals head honcho Matt Sharp juggles around various media formats, spanning photography [...]

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 there in the late ’80s — a wayward twenty-something searching for new beginnings, trying to make sense of myself and the world. To say the “Big Easy” was [...]

Briton based psych-rockers Malachai make music that spans your mom’s, dad’s, older brother’s, and eighth grade English teacher’s record collection. Charmingly offbeat and incontrovertibly badass, their debut The Ugly Side of Love can dance, sing, head-bang, and is probably willing to buy cigarettes for you while you’re waiting in the car. Verbicide recently contacted the [...]