The Courage of Others is the lusted after follow-up to Midlake's 2006 cult classic The Trials of Van Occupanther. Existing outside the plane of trends and even time, Midlake has once again conjured a...

There is an unbelievable clarity of sound and vision to Veckatimest: vocals (a duty shared by all band members) are sharper and more complex, arrangements are tighter, production is more venturous...

Rocky Votolato writes graceful, understated, unpretentious songs,demonstrating that simplicity is still a viable option for accomplished songwriters. His last two releases, "Makers" (2006, Barsuk)...

Fantasies was written mostly in exile in Argentina with only a piano and guitar, recorded mainly at the band's own Giant Studio in Toronto and mixed at the legendary Electric Lady in NYC. It's gilded...

Street Date: 2/9/2010 Somewhere in Time is the next installment in the legend of Reckless Kelly. The last, the inimitable Bulletproof, careened into the Billboard 200 and on up to the top 25 on...

Phantogram's music sounds like it's made by a band from the city. Electronic loops, hip-hop beats, shoegaze, soul, and pop each find its way into their songs. Unexpectedly, the band doesn’t live...

The two biggest constants throughout Xiu Xiu's catalog are honesty and evolution. This remains true with "Dear God, I Hate Myself" as it delivers a look at responsibility, fear, healing, and...

Laura Veirs' seventh album July Flame, which Colin Meloy calls "the best album of 2010," explores the emotion of mid-summer. Drenched in wood smoke, sunlight, pollinators, and pastoral dales, her...

Quasi (Sam Coomes, Janet Weiss, Joanna Bome) has been rocking the sticky floored graffiti scrawled dimly lit trenches since '93, & "American Gong" is their eighth album. It will be released on their...

There are few artists operating in contemporary music whose work could be accurately described as "pioneering." Though they'd doubtless balk at the term, Sheffield-via-Manchester's Sean Booth and Rob...

The Heavy have toured the world and, where the first record was sample-based, the new one is much more a product of working as a band. Like the early rock 'n' roll, blues and rhythm and blues which...

Their amazing debut album. "Rawboned blues duo the Black Keys hail from Akron, Ohio, but a listen to The Big Come Up suggests the Keys may have been raised by Mississippi ridge-runners. While Dan...

Since their 2006 formation in Syracuse, NY, quintet Ra Ra Riot has quickly gained a devoted following. Extensive touring in North America and abroad supporting Tokyo Police Club, Editors and others,...

"Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal" showcases the PLIMSOULS at the height of their power, tearing the roof off and on the verge of starting a riot on the old Sunset Strip. Recorded on a multi-track at the...

Electric President is a Jacksonville, Florida musical project by Ben Cooper and Alex Kane. The sound is a mix of folk, indie pop and electronics with the occasional reference to shoegaze and epic...

Loudon Wainwright III, together with producer Dick Connette, has created one of the most ambitious projects of his career with the 2 CD set High Wide & Handsome - a grand gathering of songs, both old...

Since breaking on to the music scene in the early nineties, CAKE has not only survived, but thrived in a tumultuous industry where major labels have continued to merge themselves out of existence,...