After spending most of last year playing with the stomping, “doom-wop,” Sub Pop-signed indie supergroup Mister Heavenly, the chameleonic Nick…
Ladysmith Black Mambazo is probably the most popular a cappella group on the planet. Their inclusion on Paul Simon’s massively…
Nick RalloSharon Van Etten, at the NPR showcase, was a stunner. Plus, there was a box accordion?If you’re familiar with…
As a motto, HERE/NOW sounds like an admonition from Ram Dass, but as the title of this ongoing improvisation project…
The unfinished lyrical canon of American folk singer Woody Guthrie is so vast—it contains over 3000 handwritten lyrics—and universally revered…
Blake Shelton is one of the biggest names in mainstream country right now, but I know little about his music…
Indie rock has long had a place on Comedy Central’s satirical right wing broadcast the Colbert Report–from Stephen Colbert’s challenging…
How tough is it to bake a potato properly?
Two of the city’s hippest funk institutions would rather hit an off note than play the same thing twice.
Written and directed by Paul Weitz (American Dreamz), Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn’s 2004 memoir Another Bullshit…
Alexandra Niedzialkowski on Lilith Fair, riot grrl, and the world’s most comfortable pillows.
WEDNESDAY 3/14 Photography: A New Continent It takes courage to open a gallery these days, when so many have closed since…
Cozell WilsonThe situation I’m on Capitol Hill at Cafe Presse with 24-year-old Alexandra Niedzialkowski, founder and frontwoman of the pop-rock…
From Vetiver to The Raincoats.
Rogue comic Will Ferrell recently turned up in an Old Milwaukee commercial exclusively for the Davenport, Iowa, local market; the…
Stephin Merritt explains why he’s got 69 Love Songs, but not a single cupcake.
After taking a three-album break from using synths, Stephin Merritt and his Magnetic Fields return to their 1990’s sound —…
The lead is exceptional, the script isn’t.
My good friend Mary Louise is a Garrick Ohlsson groupie: not just an owns-all-his-recordings fan, but a plans-vacations-around-his-concert-tours fan. Probably…
Marco Torres”What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence,…
