Oct 10, 2012 ... The title for Patrick Watson's latest wonder, Adventures In Your Own Backyard
implies a healthy dose of curiosity and escapism, with a sense of ...

Mar 27, 2012 ... Gary Clark Jr. shows a hometown crowd in Austin Texas why he's one of rock
music's great new hopes. There is style and swagger in his ...

Jan 31, 2012 ... Tracing the musical branches of Kopecky Family Band leads to interesting places
. Way out at the tips are the various fruits of these ...

Aug 2, 2011 ... LA's soulful rockers Fitz and The Tantrums lived up to the frenzy of their name
during their Atlantic City set, and we were lucky enough to ...

Aug 22, 2012 ... There is a certain witchy way about the music Carina Round dabbles in. It's
draped in dark satin, absorbing the drama of her most personal ...

Mar 20, 2012 ... There is a definite sense of loss to be heard in Scattered Trees' newest crop of
music. The songs that inhabit the Chicago band's latest album ...

Jul 19, 2012 ... Sweet, supple, and stylish; that's how we'd describe Los Angeles duo
Honeyhoney after Ben Jaffe, Suzanne Santo, and a few of their rough ...

Jul 12, 2012 ... K.Flay is an absolute whiz kid, not the biggest shocker considering she's a proud
Stanford grad. But the Bay Area MC (real name Kristine ...

Aug 31, 2011 ... Ellie Goulding is radiant on the big stage, with piercing lights and full
orchestration firing behind her starry pop tunes. Yet somehow, the British ...

May 29, 2012 ... The English Riviera is a faux-tropical, swig of land on the SW coast of England.
Bright colors, palm tree studded beaches, glamerous yachts, ...

Jun 7, 2011 ... They would end up a mess of limbs and instruments, an awkward pile up on
stage shortly before 1:30AM, with a delirious and (most likely) ...

Sep 8, 2011 ... With the air of a summer's day behind her, Laura Marling had no trouble using a
nylon string guitar to recreate lush folk arrangements.

Jul 18, 2012 ... Though she got her start lending her sweet voice to Damien Rice's music all
those years ago, Irish songwriter Lisa Hannigan has been busy ...

May 16, 2012 ... Differentiation doesn't always come naturally, but Reptar seems to come with the
word 'unique' built in, or at least stapled on somewhere on ...

Mar 6, 2012 ... This session ain't no soggy bowl of frosted flakes. Nor is it a greasy sausage, egg,
and cheese from your local fast food counter. What we're ...

May 9, 2012 ... Great Lake Swimmers make all the pieces fit together. There's something natural
about the group's dynamic, like they have been playing ...

Oct 11, 2011 ... The Naked and Famous are anything but stripped down. Their tunes contain a
dizzying track-count, booming bass accents under a synthetic ...

May 1, 2012 ... The Kooks rose to prominence in the mid-aughts with their British invasion-
channeling swagger-- like bits of Beatles and other Brit-pop ...

Nov 22, 2011 ... Todd Goldstein has had things shaking in the indie world for some time. The
amicable Brooklynite spent years carving delicious hooks into the ...

Jul 24, 2012 ... If you don't think Rhett Miller was the perfect performer to plunk at the very tippy
top of our incredible, Launch Pad line-up down in Austin this ...