L'Altra is a duo from Chicago that's been quietly making music for over a decade. The group is centered around the core of Lindsay Anderson and Joseph Desler Costa, with both of them handling vocal and songwriting duties. It's this collaborative effort that...
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Philadelphia's Kurt Vile has quietly released a number of intimate, lo-fi folk albums over the past few years, but they don't hold a candle to this year's Smoke Ring For My Halo. The record finds Vile not only increasing his overall fidelity, but also his skills as a songwriter....
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Rhode Island-based folk-rock band, The Low Anthem, released their sophomore album, Smart Flesh, last month. This recording, a follow-up to their 2008 buzz-generating, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, was produced in a long-abandoned pasta...
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Over the last few years, Kopecky Family Band has managed to place themselves at the forefront of a crowded (to say the least) Nashville music scene with their sound that can be only described as eclectically as it sounds: classical indie country pop. With a near orchestral arrangement of cello,...
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Sharon Van Etten is an American singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from New Jersey, Van Etten accredits Kyp Malone from TV On the Radio with introducing her to the New York music scene. In a 2010 interview with A.V. Milwaukee, Van Etten explains how the two became friends,...
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Hailing from Boston, Mass, David Wax Museum, dynamically blends Americana and Mexican folk with a tinge of country and just the perfect amount of rock in their most recent long-player, Everything Is Saved....
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Austin's own Moonlight Towers is set to release their third full-length album, Day Is The New Night, on April 12. In lieu of the new long-player, the foursome will be playing their, as described by Chicago Reader, “perfectly molded power-pop” at a SXSW stage near you....
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Marco Benevento is a Brooklyn based pianist, organist and composer. Known for his eclectic blending of jazz and experimental music, he has been one of New York City’s most innovative and exploratory keyboardists since graduating from...
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Seattle's Ivan & Alyosha is an indie rock band that pulls from a pop-folk pool. Today's Song of the Day, is the title track from the band's new EP...
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Devo will be remembered for its razor-sharp New Wave and goofy cultural commentary, but who would've thought the group would become bonafide rock stars? Their last-minute cancellation at last year's Fun Fun Fun Fest was met with heavy hearts (guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh seriously injured his hand),...
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Late last spring, a young talent named Sarah Jaffe emerged from Denton, Texas with her second album, Suburban Nature. She's been labeled as a singer-songwriter, but that's a disservice to her music--a fact easily highlighted by Jaffe's SXSW set for KUT at Momo's last Friday night....
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They call John Vanderslice the nicest guy in rock n' roll. He runs Tiny Telephone Studio out in the San Francisco Bay area (though he's originally from Gainesville, Florida) and maintains a strictly independent, DIY vibe throughout each production he is involved with. His latest record, White...
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Jana Hunter was once a driving force behind the "freak folk" scene that popped up in the early years of the past decade, a scene that included Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom. But most of the principals have moved on in the ensuing years, including Hunter. The Houston-born, Baltimore-residing...
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Austin prog-rock outfit, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead have seven albums to their credit and co-founder Jason Reece says the band has no plans to slow things down. Reece and founding member Conrad Keely...
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