"Did you ever, as a kid, want to crawl into the speakers?" asks Nada Surf singer-guitarist Matthew Caws. "I did--here was OK, but there was much better." And that's pretty much what Nada Surf is all...

First Aid Kit is Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg. The first single and title track to their sophomore album, "The Lion's Roar", was recorded with producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes,...

Martin Sexton's brand-new EP finds this artist again asking relevant questions and challenging the status quo. Entertaining us all the while, he continues to call for unity in "One Voice Together"...

Acony Records proudly presents The Harrow & The Harvest, an album of ten new songs from Gillian Welch. The acclaimed duet's first album in eight years is an all acoustic affair. Produced by David...

Specially priced double CD set of John Prine's earliest recordings, one year before his debut, with classic hits & one unreleased song. Both discs consist of recently unearthed tapes--the first disc...

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...

MU.ZZ.LE although short in length, is long on message - political, social and spiritual interpretations that define him as an artist. Written on the road, it was an outlet for Gonjasufi to challenge...

The Disco Demands series started sometime in the early 2000s - I couldn't give you an exact year because it didn't feel like a big deal, so I never noted it. I simply wanted to put out a compilation...

Electronic rock duo Phantogram came out of nowhere in early 2010 with the release of their debut album Eyelid Movies (Barsuk), which was lauded by both underground and mainstream press from Pitchfork...

Jukebox the Ghost have passionate fans. Fans who've gone so far as to tattoo the band's name on their body or drive for days to see their shows, or post lovesick monologues dedicated to their glory...

Charles Bradley's voice has evolved from a lifetime of paying dues, having nomadically labored for decades at various day jobs from Maine to Alaska--singing and performing in his spare time--before...

Good Luck & True Love is an album that encompasses the last 15 years of Reckless Kelly. Ten new songs that capture the essence of a road worn and battle scarred band of brothers that aren't afraid to...

If you haven't realized it yet, there are truly only three constants in any ska-punker's life: death, taxes and The Mighty Mighty BossToneS. The Boston-bred skacore octet have been in business for...

Compiled by renowned DJ Baris K, this is a 14-track compilation featuring Turkish classics from the 70s -- from rock stalwarts Erkin Koray and Cem Karaca, to disco folksters Baris Manco, Nazan Soray,...

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...

La Grande (pronounced in the way of the American West, without any hint of French inflection--"luh grand") is a town just east of the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon where native Oregonian...

Dave Alvin turns it up. The intensity, the focus, the volume. On Alvin's new album Eleven Eleven, the man who many credit with pioneering what has come to be known as 'roots rock,' revisits the...

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 and...

Of Nick Lowe, NPR once observed, "Few musicians get better with age, Nick Lowe is an exception." While it's undeniable that his last album garnered Lowe the best reviews -- dubbed "utterly...

Jonathan Wilson’s music is steeped equally in the woodsy contours of his Blue Ridge origins and the atmospheric guitar reveries of Neil Young and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Gentle Spirit, an...