Appalachian Mountains

Insert Happy Marriage Pun Here: A Blissful Union For Matrimony's Big Label Debut

A strong Bonnaroo showing is one thing. A round of tour dates supporting Alabama Shakes is another. But for Matrimony, the latest roots-stomp act to hail from south of the Mason Dixon line, their debut EP and its forthcoming full-length foil out on Columbia Records may be the crowning achievements o ... More >>

Pilgrim Song Takes to Appalachia

Bourbon 101 with Trey Zoeller, founder of Jefferson's Bourbon

Today we chatted with Trey Zoeller, the founder and master blender of Jefferson's Bourbon who gave us a brief history lesson and elaborated on the difference between whiskey and bourbon. He carries on the tradition of his ancestors, the McLains and the Kynes, who have roots deep in the bourbon indu ... More >>

DISCOMFORT INN

Check in with the Amoralists

Q&A: Ear Pwr's Sarah Reynolds On Getting Back To Nature, Sweaty House Shows And The National Parks

​ If Ear Pwr's 2009 album Super Animal Brothers III (Carpark) was a supremely dizzying act of extroversion—a string of cherry bombs celebrating cats, shiny sweaters, dumb jokes, and electro-pop over-ambition—its successor is so mild, by comparison, that it registers as the work of ... More >>

Live: Fleet Foxes Captivate The Crowd At United Palace

Fleet Foxes United Palace Theater Wednesday, May 18 Better than: Staying home and listening to Simon & Garfunkel records. Fleet Foxes' pastoral folk can strike some modern listeners as old-fashioned and derivative. But Wednesday's sold-out performance at the United Palace Theater was a vivid rem ... More >>

Black Mountain+the Black Angels

Sean Hayes

Skunk: It's the New Cockroach, Bedbug, Coyote, Goose, Etc.

This week's urban pest dream team​Lately, it's as though an arc of unwanted animals docked on the Hudson and unloaded onto Manhattan. There were coyotes earlier in the year, bedbugs everywhere all summer long, raccoons a few days ago, the unfortunate geese episodes, and now this: skunks.

Black Mountain

American Idol Season 9, Live-Blogging Idol Gives Back & Top 7 Results

Michael Becker / FOX Baby-Hugger Simon Cowell​ Two hours? Really? Because tonight's annual philanthropic extravaganza adds an extra hour onto the already too long results show (far too much to ask of any live-blogger, in my opinion), I'll be checking in intermittently throughout the night, ... More >>

Listen To Devin The Dude's New Record, Which Just Happens To Be Out Today

​Houston rapper Devin the Dude has a new album out today, and it is streaming on his Myspace page. It is called Suite #420. I doubt I have to explain to you what the title means.

Pioneering Coming Out Doc Word Is Out at Anthology

Wild Yaks+Blood Warrior+This Frontier Needs Heroes

Caridad Svich's Hillbilly Hamlet

Ophelia rises out of McCarren Pool in a spirited production marred by some odd choices

Radical Comfort

Hey Mr. Sax Man, you're the hidden king of rock and roll, or whatever it is

Kerry Goes Hunting for Votes in Ohio—Literally

A couple of hundred thousand more ought to do it

VLS Beach Blanket Books

On Comics, Thrillers, and the Bodily Arts

Nation

Like a Motown Cowboy

Rescuing Martin Luther King Jr.

A Craving for Equal Justice

Perfect Beats