With the bands Gorilla Biscuits and Quicksand, singer/guitarist Walter Schreifels helped spread the good word of the New York Hard Core scene worldwide. It's been over half a decade since Schreif  

While only a duo, Quasi's latest release, The Sword of God (Touch and Go), has a full, warm and fuzzy feel, with their majestic (and occasionally fractured) melodic grandeur filling out the space  

Mirroring the great female singer/songwriter boom of the mid-to-late-'90s, this year is shaping up to be a pretty strong one for the men in the singer/songwriter realm, bolstered by the surprise   

One of the saddest music-related stories of the year so far has to be the early morning death of Eddy Shaver on New Year's Eve. You have to marvel at the resilience of Billy Joe Shaver -- Eddy's  

For local musicians who think that working diligently to be at the top of your local scene will never pay off in the long run in terms of national success, one need only look at the story of Austi  

While you can't always judge a band by its covers, the trio Suran Song in Stag have chosen some pretty indicative renditions on their latest album, the two-disc Cowboys & Indians, including songs  

If you weren't certain that Cincinnati is some weird breeding ground for Jazz players born here but who take flight, then take a gander at the line-up for the return to the Greenwich of the New Y  

Hailing from Madison, Wisconsin, the Rock quintet Paris Texas are one of the more exciting new bands who use Punk as a springboard without limiting themselves to any sort of narrow focus. On the g  

There will be some excellent Pop/Rock music from both edges of the U.S. to help chase away those early week doldrums. Boston's Calendar Girl will be pulling into Sudsy Malone's in support of the  

If this was a high school couple, it'd be voted "Tour Mostly Likely Not to Succeed" in the high school yearbook. Playing on the notorious "sibling rivalry" of the brothers in headliners Oasis  

In a Pittsburgh neighborhood sometime last year, guitarist Gregg Kostelich was cleaning out his garage. On top of a box of croquet balls, hidden under a bicycle tire and a high school biology text  

With one of the finest releases of the year so far, San Francisco's B.R.M.C. create an engrossing and engulfing brand of fuzzed-out Psychedelic Rock on their fantastic self-titled, major-label de  

When last Modesto, California's Grandaddy passed through the Southgate House, they were opening for critical fuck-doll Elliott Smith and drawing a pretty split response from the crowd. Some thoug  

Ivan Klipstein is a prolific and ambitious 25-year-old singer/songwriter hailing from the seemingly unlikely burg of Madison, Wisc. There's nothing that could be considered unlikely on Klipstein  

With a contemporary twist on traditional Celtic music, Scotland's Old Blind Dogs have been heralded as somewhat of a "supergroup" in the Celtic and Folk world, drawing comparisons to legendary