In the 2004 movie Garden State, Natalie Portman’s character Sam declared that a Shins song is capable of changing your life.
March begins the season of music festivals, and this year Durham has one to be excited about.
Any publication that calls Wrecking Ball a perfect album should have a ball of iron plowed through its headquarters.
Here’s the thing: Stephin Merritt does whatever he wants, and doesn’t seem to care what we—or even his own band for that matter—think.
What’s to be anticipated from Bowerbirds’ third LP The Clearing?
Grammy award-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops returned this week with their latest album...
With 2009’s Reservoir, London-based Fanfarlo invigorated a well-worn sound with powerful narratives...
Comparing Shearwater to Talk Talk is sort of like comparing a contemporary Irish novelist to James Joyce...
“It All Feels the Same,” the first track off of Tennis’ sophomore album, Young and Old, displays a remarkable sense of clairvoyance in its title.
What is it about Montreal that fosters good music?
Just like the antique Peugeot that whisks Owen Wilson to the Parisian 1920’s in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, Sharon Van Etten’s voice has a magical quality of transposition.
Portland folkies Blind Pilot, who will perform Feb. 21 at Cat’s Cradle, are no strangers to the Triangle.
“We just want to emote ‘til we’re dead.” This epitaph-to-be has become a pretty accurate M.O. for Kevin Barnes’ work during the past half-decade.
Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel, a.k.a.
Sharon Van Etten’s voice has a magical quality of transposition.
You’d be right to call Die Antwoord an oddity, but you probably wouldn’t be doing it for the right reasons.
First Aid Kit launched their career with a novel YouTube oddity that’s received almost 3 million hits.
On Sonic Youth’s widely-regarded 1988 album Daydream Nation, frontman Thurston Moore sang.
Since the 2010 release of Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man, Brooklyn-based Das Racist, ...
