Jeff Miller

TOP LA BAND: The sepia-toned country-rockers of Dawes never impressed me much in LA, but they've finally tightened their sound and their show up; as I watched them earnestly croon heartfelt Gram Parsons-inspired numbers in the IFC house for a TV taping, it seemed like they'd finally found their niche......

KCRW's music director Jason Bentley is one of the patron saints of bands at South By Southwest. Countless bands playing the fest got their start from DJs at the station, and Bentley himself has championed dozens of them on his daily show, Morning Becomes Eclectic, vaunting them from unknowns to......

Glendale's Henry Clay People may end this South By Southwest able to brag that they were the hardest-working band in Austin. The sibling-led shout-rockers (who were just signed to TBD records, home of Radiohead) will have played 11 shows in 4 days. They've still got two more to go today......

View more photos in Erin Broadley's "SXSW: Courtney Love and Hole Return" slideshow. One of the most-anticipated gigs at this year's South By Southwest was the return (in name, if not in band members) of Courtney Love's group Hole, although it seemed as if the motives for the buzz weren't......

Read Jeff Miller's overview of the first evening of Phish's three-night stint at the Coachella grounds, and read his recap of day two. Sometimes, being a Phish fan is kind of like being a parent: your kid presents you with a completely ridiculous challenge ("Mom, mom, I'm gonna build a......

Read Jeff Miller's overview of the first evening of Phish's three-night stint at the Coachella grounds, and read his recap of day three. Halloween's a holiday that Phish built their reputation for unpredictability on - since 1994, when a show by the band's fallen on October 31st, they've celebrated by......

Read Jeff Miller's overview of the second evening of Phish's three-night stint at the Coachella grounds, and read his recap of day three. For me, watching a Phish festival on the same field that hosts Coachella each year's like introducing your college friends to your high school friends for the......