Where are you, Fiona Apple? After a banner 2012, the singer-songwriter recently cancelled her only scheduled appearance for 2013, at Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival; she also torpedoed a slew of…   Read Story »

If you're heading to The Gorge for Sasquatch! this weekend, you probably already know to check out Sigur Rós, Vampire Weekend, Tame Impala, and other live favorites. But, as with Coachella, there…   Read Story »

Sebadoh were something of the “Beautiful Losers” of the ’90s indie scene. Lou Barlow emerged from Northamption hardcore act Deep Wound, and later Dinosaur Jr., having famously been…   Read Story »

It's kind of a stretch to connect James Murphy's most recent dismissal of an LCD Soundsystem reunion with the release of “Get Lucky", which happened within a few days of each other, but it's still…   Read Story »

In the 2005 film Junebug, Will Oldham's character works for a Chicago curator, on the lookout for "outsider artists" in the backwoods of North Carolina for a big city gallery. It's not a bad…   Read Story »

“I want to be the Patti Smith of now, with something like ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger’ blaring out of kids’ speakers. I fantasize about that, but I’m not going to be that. I’m just not that…   Read Story »

The Band has a deserved reputation as one of the true oracles of American music at its essence -- their seamless distillation of blues, jazz, folk, country, rockabilly, and soul can tell a…   Read Story »

All Built To Spill songs exist on a continuum between two poles: snappy, twee-inflected pop songs and vast, mind-altering classic rock soundscapes. I've never been to Idaho, but I can't help…   Read Story »

"To me, Conor Oberst resembles Patti Smith a great deal," R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe told me in an interview back in 2008. "As a performer, as a magnet. He's just got that thing that she's got." The…   Read Story »

Tackling the 10 best Public Image Ltd. songs is a daunting task. First question is, who exactly is PiL? Yes, there is a recent album called This Is PiL that some might think answers the question, but…   Read Story »