Katy Kirby has released my favorite album of 2021 so far with "Cool Dry Place." It is hard for me to overstate how much I love this album. And even harder…

Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner met as camp counselors at an art and music camp in New Jersey. Nate thought he was going to go to his senior…

Xiu Xiu is a decidedly serious band. In an article that he wrote for Talkhouse, Jamie Stewart said, "understand the fact that I am a prickly and…

At their heart, Kings of Leon is a family band. Brothers Nathan, Caleb and Jared Followill started the band in 1999 and brought their cousin Matthew…

Buck Meek's album, "Two Saviors" is the album I have listened to the most so far this year. On a drive last week I hit play on the album again and…

The Avalanches started off as the only two weirdos in town. "We found each other in a small country town in Australia ... We were both fish out of water,"…

When The Staves -- Jessica, Camilla and Emily Staveley-Taylor -- were kids, they made up a fake TV sketch show called 'The Crew." "There were two…

Jon Batiste is the band leader for "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" five nights a week, he just made the soundtrack for Pixar's new movie "Soul," and…

Some years ago, at a Christian writing conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 20 year old Julien Baker made a power point presentation about how hardcore…

Before he was in music, Bartees Strange was in politics. He worked in the Obama administration as the press secretary for the FCC, working on Net…