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Daptone’s The Budos Band jumped on the funk revivalism bandwagon and made it their own with Ethiopian-tinged instrumentation and sixties psychadelia. Playing...
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Brooklyn-based Bear in Heaven dress up krautrock’s moody prog feel with the shimmering synths and throbbing bass of club stompers. With hazy atmospherics that nod...
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It’s tempting to just list a series of adjectives when someone asks, “Who’s Yann Tiersen?” but to save time I usually stick with, “He did the...
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Canadian alt-rockers Our Lady Peace had been playing for 10 years before the 2002 release of Gravity, the album whose single “Somewhere Out There” rocked the radio...
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Ian Vanek and Matt Reilly make a hell of a lot of noise for two people: With a sampler/drum machine, pounding drums, fuzzed-out bass, and barked-in-unison choruses, they...
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As Kid Koala, Canadian DJ Eric San melds clips from TV, sketch comedy, performance art, Cantonese menus, and—somewhere in there—samples from a wide spectrum of...
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Not quite hip-hop and not quite anything else, Why? mixes dense melodies with Yoni Wolf’s near-sneer delivery, kinesthetic atmospherics, and jittery synths. Simply put,...
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A family quartet from Texas, Eisley is Chauntelle, Sherri, Stacy, and Weston Dupree, and although they’ve been furiously writing their ethereal melodies since 1997 (when...
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Taking the gothic pop sensibility of the Cure and adding the dark magnetism of Tool (but without the later band’s cerebral experimentalism), Chevelle has been balancing...
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Brooklyn quintet Robbers on High Street come from a time when “indie rock” wasn’t so ubiquitous as to be almost devoid of meaning, and today they continue to...
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Since releasing their first major record (Pezcore in 1995), Gainesville hit-makers Less Than Jake have perfected the third-wave ska of brassy brashness, distorted guitar, and...
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Seven-piece Celtic punk band Flogging Molly take their roots in booze, Irish history, poverty, politics, death, love, and the Roman Catholic Church and manage to make it not...
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A Russian-American singer-songwriter known for her quirky style (including dolphin-esque squeaking and beatbox-type riffing inserted into piano-led ballads), Spektor has spent...
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With her downright haunting voice and death-driven lyrics, Cate Le Bon has often been accused of Thanatos. That’s fair, but rather than wallowing in her misery, this...
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Alison “VV” Mosshart and Jamie “Hotel” Hince of the Kills were doomed White Stripes comparisons the minute this boy/girl garage rock duo started...
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Aimee Mann isn’t just good at cleaning the Portlandia crew’s house and putting on a cozy show in their living room—though admittedly, it is precisely her...
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Jenny Owen Youngs graduated from self-releasing to label-signing after the show Weeds featured her beautiful downer, “Fuck Was I,” in 2006. Since that unexpected...
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Usually a solo performer, Bala Cynwyd-born Mirah's most recent work features Thao Nguyen, a performer who brings an extra touch of experimental verve. Still, whether...
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Singer-songwriter Laura Gibson went from strumming nylon strings for the bedridden to recording with fellow Portland projects such as the Decemberists and M. Ward. Her...
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Brighton blokes Fujiya & Miyagi take a page from the Krautrock school of electronic ambience while adding pithy lyrics sung in an almost sinister sneer. Although the...
