Music

They don’t need drums. They don’t need bass. Sparse, gentle acoustic guitar appears now and then, but on many of their songs the three young, honey-voiced members of the new Vermont alt-folk trio Mountain Man use no musical accompaniment whatsoever. The result is ...

Ziggy Marley wants people to get up, stand up and be heard, especially when it comes to genetically modified organisms (GMOs...

The gospel of N3ptune

If there’s one moment that captures the sonic leap of Nashville-based music artist Sophie Allison over the last half-decade, it comes right in the...

Dustin Moran and KR Nelson were on a set break during a gig last March in Austin, Texas, when they heard that South by...

When MUNA’s “Silk Chiffon” entered the world in late summer 2021, life was, in general, definitively not fun. But as society was preparing to...

The term “emo” has lived many lives since its origins in the evolving D.C. hardcore scene of the late 1980s. Three decades later, the...

During the two years that went into making her current album, Midnight, Grace Potter realized a game-changing truth about herself. “I figured out that I’m...

The Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House, which headlines the Boulder Theater on Sunday with some auxiliary musicians, has been steadily touring since its inception in 2004. The group’s silky indierock, as much Nico-era Velvet Underground as Euro-pop in the vein of ...

With the release of their third studio album Southern Rock Opera in 2001, the Drive-By Truckers finally emerged from local alt-country favorites to national critical darlings. The sprawling, hard-charging, 94-minute epic masterpiece somehow weaves the band’s personal...

The day after A.A. Bondy finished his latest album, Enderness, his house burned in the Woolsey Fire that ate up nearly 100,000 acres of...

Last fall, Nahko Bear carved time out of his schedule as the frontman of Medicine for the People to visit the Standing Rock Reservation...