Falling James

Technology doesn’t scare Lauren Kop, the woman behind the local synth-pop project Mini Bear. Instead, she fully embraces it, using her abilities to create, reco...

“Nothin’ on this jukebox ’cept the blues,” Sarah Shook laments on “Good as Gold,” from Years, the latest album by the Chapel Hill singer and her band The Disarm...

“Is there anyone left in this sea of a city, city by the sea?/It’s getting harder to hear you when you speak/Through the smoke and mirrors of the silver screen,...

Ty Segall has cranked out numerous hard rock, punk and psychedelic releases under his own name and with such projects as Fuzz and The CIA. What’s surprising abo...

“My eyelids float between two states on the borderline,” Elizabeth Stokes confides on “Great No One,” from The Beths’ new album, Future Me Hates Me. “Misery lov...

Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero can do more with two acoustic guitars than many bands can manage with full instrumentation and a fortress of amplifiers. T...

Although members of Mekons — particularly singer-guitarist Jon Langford — occasionally come through town with various projects, it’s rare that the entire Englis...

“Well, people, run from your holy temple/I used to be one of you,” Leah Lane beseeches with urgent, searing vocals on the incendiary punk anthem “Blitzkrieg in ...

There aren’t many indie-rock groups as smart, sassy, playful and colorful as Dressy Bessy. The Denver band’s latest album, Fast Faster Disaster, is cram-packed ...

Jesca Hoop’s music has been praised by Tom Waits, and the California native and longtime British resident has worked with Iron & Wine, Eels and Blake Mills,...