Kevin Bronson

Say what you will about Angels & Airwaves' radio rock (outer-space emo is the phrase that comes to mind), but Tom DeLonge has a plan. Working around the cash register jingle of inevitable Blink-182 reunions, he's made three increasingly ambitious albums with his new project, including Love, which was released......

Austin five-piece Voxtrot had its 15 minutes as indie-pop darlings in 2005-06, when back-to-back EPs and the charisma of frontman Ramesh Srivastava fueled blog buzz over its heart-on-sleeve, Brit-inspired music. Pitchfork numbers were high, and so were spirits, until Voxtrot's 2007 full-length, which was overthought if not overwrought. And as......

Steve Bays remembers one of Hot Hot Heat's first trips to Los Angeles: slices of pizza with Warner Bros. executive Tom Whalley and supermanager Jim Guerinot...

Fans of his Brit Award-nominated quartet Guillemots will have to wait -- frontman Fyfe Dangerfield is busy making people swoon. Dangerfield's solo album "Fly Yellow Moon," written in five days on what was obviously a pop bender, is hooky and heart-on-the-sleeve and bears some nice production touches added by Suede's......

Surf's up, and so is Jack Johnson's domination of the saleable-sappy-soft-surf singer-songwriter market. The 35-year-old Hawaiian feel-gooder's new album is called "To the Sea" (perhaps you've heard the cloying single "You and Your Heart"), out next week, and that's where Johnson is going tonight. His has an 8 p.m. show......

Scottish anthem-vendors Frightened Rabbit were on a lot of festival-goers' must-see list this year at Coachella, but that was before ash from an Icleandic volcano fouled air travel and left the quartet stranded on another continent. The smoke has cleared, the U2 acolytes are bringing their brawny, tremulous rock to......

"Distant Relatives," the meeting of the musicial minds of Nas and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, has already earned some well-deserved plaudits. Indeed, there's a lot to like on the album (released this week), with the New York City rapper's tightly wound narratives twined with Marley's thick Jamaican grooves. The duo's......

Rapper Talib Kweli and producer Hi-Tek are officially back in business as Reflection Eternal -- a full decade after their first album, Train of Thought. The new Revolutions Per Minute (out this week) might not feel as revolutionary as their debut, but it'll put a smile on the face of......

Even without its remarkable backstory, Roky Erickson's album with Okkervil River, "True Love Cast Out All Evil," feels like a triumph. Full speed ahead on comeback trail after years lost to drug abuse and mental illness, the 62-year-old songwriter has crafted the tender, back-porch folk of a man who's seen......