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2012 Stories by Mikael Wood

• Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

  published May 9, 2012

  Look, I’m as heartened as anyone by this L.A. hippie-pop crew’s convention-defying success: the big sales, the sold-out shows, for... More >>

• HANGING ON

  published May 9, 2012

  Indie rock's second-most-famous harpist (after Joanna Newsom), Pat Grossi of
Active Child says he's ready to start work on the follow-up to... More >>

• Angels and Airwaves

  published May 9, 2012

  Last year’s glum Blink-182 reunion album, Neighborhoods, had to have been a disappointment to anyone who once valued this SoCal... More >>

• Beth Orton

  published May 9, 2012

  It’s been a while since we’ve heard from this English singer-songwriter, whose most recent album, 2006’s Comfort of... More >>

• Loudon Wainwright II

  published May 9, 2012

  "If families didn’t break apart, I suppose there’d be no need for art,” Wainwright sings on his new Older Than My Old Man... More >>

• Brian McKnight

  published May 9, 2012

  The R&B smoothie entered the news last month after he took to YouTube to preview a new song in which he offers to “let me show you how your... More >>

• SUPER CUTS

  published May 2, 2012

  Despite a major-label marketing push and an assist from Madonna/Killers producer Stuart Price, Scissor Sisters didn't quite establish a mainstream... More >>

• MOVIN' ON

  published May 2, 2012

  This fall, St. Ann's Warehouse is relocating from 38 Water Street in DUMBO to 29 Jay Street, about seven blocks away. If that move seems minor,... More >>

• SATAN'S CHILDREN

  published April 25, 2012

  England's WU LYF (World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation) make a crescendo-rich indie-rock racket that shares some DNA with music by Explosions in... More >>

• Feist

  published April 25, 2012

  Canada’s premier art-pop purveyor has been through town a number of times since the release of last year’s Metals, but given... More >>

• Ane Brun

  published April 25, 2012

  This Norwegian singer spent a good chunk of 2011 working with Peter Gabriel on his dead-boring New Blood project, but fortunately... More >>

• Florence and the Machine

  published April 25, 2012

  Fresh off recent appearances at Coachella and on The Voice, Florence Welch and her always-reliable gospel-punk Machine hit Radio City for a... More >>

• GROWING UP

  published April 11, 2012

  LCD Soundsystem fans still mourning the premature death of that outfit could do worse than to throw in their lot with Tanlines, the Brooklyn-based... More >>

• Hot Chelle Rae

  published April 11, 2012

  Fronted by the sons of two prominent country-music songwriters, this tween-beloved Nashville outfit plays high-energy pop-rock that sounds like a... More >>

• Say Anything

  published April 11, 2012

  Back in Indieland after a surprisingly lengthy major-label stint, these obsessive-compulsive emo thinkers have a new one out called Anarchy, My... More >>

• SOUL SURVIVOR

  published April 11, 2012

  Michigan native Mayer Hawthorne executes his throwback r&b with so much period precision that a casual observer might assume the stuff was rescued... More >>

• Needtobreathe

  published April 11, 2012

  Something like the midpoint between Kings of Leon and the Civil Wars, these South Carolina folk-rock dudes spent much of last year opening arena... More >>

• New Edition

  published April 11, 2012

  On the road celebrating their 30th year in (and occasionally out of) business, the classic R&B boy band hits town with the six-man lineup of your... More >>

• Keith Sweat

  published April 11, 2012

  The R&B veteran recruited T-Pain for a cut on last year’s ’Til the Morning, one in which both men wonder how many licks it... More >>

• BITTERSWEET SYNTHONY

  published April 11, 2012

  It has been a busy month for Jonathan Pierce of the Drums, who just wrapped up a run in London as part of the all-star ensemble in an impossibly... More >>

• Suzanne Vega & Duncan Sheik

  published April 11, 2012

  Here’s a solid double-bill pairing two New York City songwriters doing fine work in a retrospective vein. Vega recently released the third... More >>

• 'John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders'

  published April 11, 2012

  The Dylan-indebted singer-songwriter reconvenes his regular music-and-literature confab with appearances tonight by writers including Rick Moody... More >>

• Daughtry

  published April 11, 2012

  As its title seems to suggest, last year’s Break the Spell didn’t quite rise to the pop-metal standard set by Daughtry’s... More >>

• The Naked and Famous

  published April 4, 2012

  The goofy name and Gossip Girl associations seem to have prevented this New Zealand synth-rock outfit from being taken seriously by... More >>

• BLACK MAGIC

  published April 4, 2012

  At 46, J Mascis has more going on right now than most of the indie-rock youngsters he has inspired: an upcoming Dinosaur Jr. album, a debut out... More >>