“I promise you, no one is enjoying this more than me,” John Darnielle, lead singer of The Mountain Goats says at one point during this performance. Even…

I can't overstate how this list is reflective of one person. I'm Justin Barney, white guy, lifelong Milwaukeean, lives in Bay View with a cat, dad…

It's hard to rhyme the word Milwaukee. It's three syllables. Lots of mouth movement. Kinda clunky. And yet, to us, it's the word we love hearing the most.…

James Mercer is the lead singer of The Shins, a band that has gone through many changes in its 20 year existence. And although its lineup has changed many…

In our last conversation with Robin Pecknold he told us about how he wrote songs on paper, like they were a story: "This is how it begins, then the…

My guide book was soaked through. I woke up in the woods of northern Oklahoma to the tap, tap, taping of rain on the top of my tent. I wasn’t expecting…

Alicia Bognanno was not a great student. "I pretty much got C's," she tells us. But her high school had an elective class for audio engineering. In that…

Chicago's Dehd released "Flower of Devotion" earlier this year and I fell in love. An aspect of their music that is unique is Emily Kemph's voice. Like…

Tim Heidecker is a funny guy. He's most notable for his show "Tim & Eric" though he has done an incredible amount of other work as an actor and comedian…

In May, Tkay Maidza released the video for her song "Shook." It pans over a cliff in Australia, into an abandoned junk yard, as Tkay Maidza emerges from a…