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Much like their better-known neighbors in Guided By Voices, Dayton, Ohio’s Smug Brothers have never made a grand production out

At just 19, Olive Siegel has already cycled through multiple versions of her singer/songwriter self. The Maine-based artist has a

Pug Johnson’s latest single is a cheerfully self-deprecating East Texas waltz that champions diminishing expectations, disappearing standards and that point

For members of the Love.Craft Band, the process of making music isn’t something to fuss over. The Athens, Ga., six-piece

For the Clover Valley Boys, rooting around in country music’s past has never been an exercise in preservation or imitation.

Nostalgia is comforting up to a point. But when it promotes stagnation, you can be caught between an idealized past

Reassembling after two decades, Teddy DuChamp’s Army has gone right back to trusting its DIY instincts on new single “Throwing

His ambient explorations on hold for now, Houston-based guitarist Kelly Doyle returns to his primary instrument on Thieves (Strolling Bones),

“Ten songs about 10 disasters … EBows and synths galore.” Scott Whiddon’s assessment of his forthcoming album isn’t exactly reassuring.

For Jonathan Searles, “Gasoline” helped forge a path inward. “It heralded a new age for my songwriting,” says the Connecticut-based

Sledding is a poster band for the power of networking in Brooklyn’s fertile music scene. It was a little more