When Lawrence, Kansas-based Jordan Geiger (Minus Story, Shearwater) started recording under the name Hospital Ships, it was little more than a bed...
Some albums are awesome because they are "different" and new sounding. That's at least partially why we love albums by artists like The xx, Purity...
On their sophomore album, Hummingbird, Local Natives trade in the exuberant, cinematic choruses and hyper-charged rhythms that marked Gorilla Mano...
Case Studies is the is the project of Seattle-songwriter Jesse Lortz (formerly from the band The Dutchess and the Duke). This Is Another Life ...
We're halfway through 2013 and from where I'm sitting, one of the most notable stories in indie music this year is the successful artistic evoluti...
How you feel about She & Him almost certainly hinges, at least in part, on how you feel about Zooey Deschanel. After all, Volume 3, Deschanel'...
It's easy to take for granted how nearly effortless new music discovery has become. After all, thanks to the Internet, there are countless ways to...
Sometimes I think that we, that is all of us, try a little too hard at life. We get caught up in new technology, the excitement of complexity, and...
"In my experience, there's no such thing as luck." -Obi-Wan KenobiHow does an unknown band succeed in the Internet age*? On the one ...
Until recently I didn't consider myself a fan of pop music. In fact, I'd once believed that pop music was the antithesis of everything I liked abo...
I like the idea of being a risk taker. By it's very nature, it sounds adventurous and exciting. It sounds totally baller. It's the essence of YOLO...
