Falling James

Alan Bishop must like living in hot, arid deserts. He formed the oddball experimental-jazz-noise-improvisational combo Sun City Girls with his brother Richard B...

Sofia Wolfson is a local singer-guitarist who demonstrated her precocious talent when she released her 2015 debut album, Hunker Down, when she was just 16 years...

Like her half-sister Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lou Doillon might be better known for her celebrity heritage — her mother is actor-singer Jane Birkin, and her father...

Writer-singer John S. Hall is the mastermind behind King Missile, the often-brilliant New York City band who married his cleverly absurd lyrics with supremely c...

The Spits are one of the few modern punk bands who do more than merely revive the ancient past. On their variously numbered self-titled albums and the In the Re...

Cassandra Violet is a local singer who wraps her sleekly melodic vocals around a series of ebulliently poppy settings. “Pretty,” from 2017’s EP4, is an aptly ti...

It’s time for another edition of The Watkins Family Hour, the unpredictable gathering that mixes bluegrass heartache, folk-rock longing and classic-rock covers ...

In spite of this era’s sometimes dark and divisive political climate, Tacocat’s “New World,” from their latest album, This Mess Is a Place, is a surprisingly up...

“I can’t wait till we’re buried in the ground,” singer-bassist Ammo Bankoff confides dreamily against a backdrop of Neil Popkin’s shimmering guitar on “Waves,” ...

“I can see through you/I can see through them/Go play your false anthems of empowerment,” Jessica Boudreaux sneers on “False Anthem,” from Summer Cannibals’ upc...