Britt Witt

What does knowing each other from your (self-proclaimed) loser boyhood to gracing the cover of Rolling Stone do to your relationship? In the case of The Drums' Jonathan Pierce and Jacob Graham, it leaves you holed up in a dark cabin, crafting a comeback masterpiece devoid of self-consciousness and striving......

No one will ever forget the "Here It Goes Again" treadmill dancing phenomenon, which took the music video world by storm and put OK Go on the map in 2006. These days the Chicago-bred, L.A.-based four-piece is still high on creating innovative single-take videos, but their power-pop is undeniably infectious......

The fun-loving doesn't stop at just living life for siblings Barbara and Ethan Gruska. Their musical partnership as The Belle Brigade since 2008 has been a flourishing one, garnering critical acclaim for their self-titled debut in 2011 and their most recent release, Just Because. No strangers to creating music, the......

On the heels of their newest release, Spoon are hitting the ground running with an international tour. They Want My Soul is the Austin-based quartet's eighth studio album, marking an indomitable run for their minimal yet hooky indie rock. Led by singer-guitarist Britt Daniel, Spoon are reinvigorated after their longest......

These days when you think Arcade Fire, it's all mirrors and Reflektors. But Arcade Fire wasn't always confetti and dancing. Thirteen years after forming, the Canadian art rockers are pioneers of 21st-century indie music, traversing themes of organized religion, coming of age, hope, nostalgia and death. Their sound is known......

A year after NorCal native Yoodoo Park, known as GRMLN, released his debut LP, Empire, he has joined a label (Carpark Records), garnered solid reviews and announced the arrival in September of his new LP, Soon Away. GRMLN's ocean breeze–tinged power pop finds itself nestled somewhere between Wavves and Velvet......

Call it rock, call it soul, call it gypsy-jazz, but the only genre we can all agree on when it comes to Jessica Hernandez and The Deltas is "unclassifiable." The charismatic leading lady and her jazz-trained band hail from Detroit, where they have soaked up the influences of the gritty......

If you love local bands, independent record labels and music marathons, the first official Lolipalooza is for you. A record store and label, Echo Park's Lolipop Records has been releasing underground cassettes and vinyl since 2010. Its dedication to music has earned it a massive roster of bands you've heard......

U.K. electro duo Fuck Buttons met in art school and over the past decade, on only three albums, have created aural masterpieces. Using the simplest of instruments, such as children's toys and Casio keyboards, Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power build a mélange of rigorous and angular sounds that mesmerize......

Dean Wareham is no performance rookie. Considered one of the original voices of American indie rock, Wareham started his career in 1987 with his band Galaxie 500. Nowadays, Wareham is on his own, having released the EP Emancipated Hearts late last year and his self-titled debut in March, produced by......