A lot’s happened to The Great Shakes since the group released its three-song In the Ballroom EP back in 2003. Two drummers. A new…

Ben Folds told indie musicians, their fingers sore from scraping guitar frets all those years, that it was, indeed, okay to pound the keys…

I have something I need to push off my chest. I hated the 1980’s. There, I said it. I absolutely hated that never-ending, god-awful…

Ask Jesus Christ, Euclid, or John Ritter and they’ll tell you: there’s something intrinsically welcoming and powerful about the number three. The Canadian post-rock…

Call it an inviting contradiction. In the early- to mid-1990s, a handful of singer/songwriters began experimenting to much-deserved acclaim with the emotional immediacy and…

Asahi’s Head Above Water may be more fittingly titled Head Above Air. The debut full-length from the Seattle sextet is often a statement in…

If his work with The Bus Stop Label is any indication — and I get the feeling that it is — Andrew Sandoval must…

In a word, bizarre. It’s just plain bizarre.There’s been more than a fair share of participants in what we’ll call, for lack of a…

Book of Silk is an appropriate title for Tin Hat Trio’s latest outing, a 15-song collection whose subtle beauties are delicate but harbor an…

Tub Ring’s follow-up to 2004’s Zoo Hypothesis is one of those discs that’s less a full-blooded successor to a critically under-rated album than a…