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After spending the summer on the festival circuit, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Meg Myers has lined up a club tour this fall. Her latest EP, Make a Shadow, has yielded two singles: “Desire” and “Heart Heart Head,&#...
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Recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles during the summer of 2013, The Black Keys’ new album presents a kinder, gentler version of the garage blues they’ve played for the past decade. Danger Mouse is still at the helm, adding l...
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A New Orleans band that doesn’t necessarily sound like a New Orleans band, The Iguanas have been kicking around since 1989. With their recent releases, 2012’s Sin to Sin and this year’s Juarez, the band has hit a new creative h...
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Earlier this year in Los Angeles, the punk band X played its first four albums over the course of four nights. Now, the band is taking the show on the road playing those albums in their entirety in New York, Chicago and Clevela...
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On his forthcoming solo album, You’ve Got the Wrong Man, singer-songwriter Joe Fletcher takes a different approach than he did on his first two albums with his band, the Wrong Reasons. The record, which features covers of...
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Wakey!Wakey! frontman Michael Grubbs sang in the choir while he was a kid and that gospel tradition shows up on the band’s terrific new album, Salvation. Known for his role as “Grubbs” on the TV show One Tree Hill, ...
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Five years ago, singer-songwriter Adam Marsland issued Go West, a 23-song double album of power pop and indie rock tunes. Back then it essentially fell on deaf ears but Marsland it giving the record another push with his curre...
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For 30 years, the Melvins have been one of the noisiest trios out there. But now singer-guitarist Buzz Osborne has just released his solo debut, This Machine Kills Artists. The acoustic songs show a different side of Osborne, w...
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On his new albumToo Blessed To Be Stressed, singer-songwriter Paul Thorn takes a break from autobiography to provide a few observations about everyday life and the current state of the world. He has said the songs are about “un...
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Gogol Bordello has been through numerous incarnations and featured a variety of musicians and dancers over the years. Singer Eugene Hütz doesn’t think these changes are symbolic of any kind of instability. Rather, they’re...