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Given today’s dicey political climate, feel free to read whatever you want into Guided By Voices’ latest single and lines

A juicy ’60s garage-pop throwback with pronounced post-punk DNA, “New Year’s Dissolution” is the latest result of S. LaBate’s fruitful

Max Wareham’s latest single did some sitting before it finally found its legs with the help of a bluegrass legend.

A fixture on the Los Angeles indie scene for more than three decades, David Steinhart spent the past 10 years

“Banks Of The Brazos” is the continuation of a sobering, real-life tale Roger Street Friedman first documented on 2022’s “The

MAGNET’s Mitch Myers celebrates the celebration of the MC5 in the year 2024 How do we salute the MC5? Let

Rosa Bordallo’s “Crasseux” is a study in contrast. “The opening lyrics describe a scene I imagined from history, when Ferdinand

For the North American start of The Big Show Tour at Philadelphia’s Union Transfer, They Might Be Giants’ cofounding Johns

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings at the Zellerbach Theatre, Philadelphia. Photos by Chris Sikich.

Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places

Now more than two decades removed from her touring affiliations with Helium and the Spinanes and the lavishly intimate indie-pop

The six-track Raindrop River EP began as a single song dealing with solitude. “It’s about seeking refuge—a gentle escape where

Landing a gig at Tesla’s Silicon Valley engineering headquarters sounds like a Gen Zer’s dream job. But tech couldn’t tame

Instrumental music has its limits as a way of advocating for social change, and Tashi Dorji knows this. But he

Jesse Malin Benefit Concert at the Beacon Theatre, New York City, featuring Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, J Mascis, Rickie Lee

Multimedia maestro Matt Cascella has amassed a beefy portfolio in a relatively short span of time. Commencing his career in

Adrianne Lenker and Suzanne Vallie at Union Transfer, Philadelphia. Photos by Chris Sikich. Suzanne Vallie

Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places

Tom Morello performed an intimate acoustic set at the Hotel Cafe in memory of Wayne Kramer of the MC5. Proceeds from

Anyone who thinks of the Cowsills solely as the eternally sunny harmonists behind ’60s hits such as “The Rain, The

Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places

After brief, somewhat ill-fated run as the Natural Lines, Matt Pond PA is back to its charming old self with

“Merry Christmas, Emily” ought to be a nice stocking stuffer for diehard Cracker fans. This hungover alternative to the more

You have to wonder whether Nate Ostrander would’ve permanently traded in his guitar for a riding crop if he hadn’t