“South by Southwest as a whole just seemed different to me this year,” says John McCauley, lead singer/songwriter for Rhode Island’s best rock band Deer Tick....
In the five years since Canadian chamber-rock band Broken Social Scene released its last album, lead Scenester Kevin Drew has ably stepped into indie-stardom, nurturing mass-anticipation...
Folk artist Ray Lamontagne often seems like a loner. His albums contain tales of woe and torment—with a little joy folded in for good measure, at times—that seem...
Melissa Etheridge doesn’t deal in subtlety. For much of her career—especially in the mid ’90s—her lack of subtlety was a practical revolution; both social and sonic. The...
here is little doubt that Jack Johnson has become a sonic caricature of his laid-back self. The release of his latest effort, the let’s-all-be-happy-and-chill album To The...
Is it folk? Is it rock? Stop—you’re both right. O Ye Devastator, the latest album from Denton, TX, troubadour Doug Burr, is a study in how people...