God bless those fluid entities, the ones that violate strictures of behavior and being. Like the Southern debutante with a lovely singing voice... More >>

The '80s Athens post-punk band Pylon is finally back on the radar, playing reunion shows behind DFA's release of the career summation Gyrate Plus.... More >>

Cursive may have just played the Glass House last week, but Tim Kasher's other band is another beast altogether, trading meaty punk for warm and... More >>

"We'll sail our ships to the summer of 1996," announces the opening line of "Elly Vs The Eczema Princess," the second song off the Henry Clay... More >>

By now, maybe the backlash against Tokyo Police Club has abated. Sure, the Canadian quartet's much-hyped A Lesson In Crime EP sounds like a... More >>

The A-Sides have come a long way. The sharp garage riffing of their debut seven-inch could have passed for the Who, while the dewy psychedelia of... More >>

In 2007, the Melvins are founders Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover plus Big Business, Jared Warren and Coady Willis. And hopefully they will start... More >>

Shimmer and twang are the stock and trade of the Tyde. Sunny days and surfing, too. Each of the band's numerically named albums—2000's Once,... More >>

Is there a singer/songwriter responsible for more sad and funny songs than John Prine? It's amazing how the Illinois-bred, Nashville-based... More >>

Forget for a second the brightly hued '80s icons the Go-Go's would become. They didn't set out to conquer the world, y'know. They were just a... More >>