Brooklyn local Autre Ne Veut is staking his claim as R&B's next morbid, art-damaged sensation, yet live, his performance has more in common...

Vatican Shadow, who just released Ornamented Walls, often gets called dark ambient, which is only partially true. Knob-twiddler Dominick Fer...

Dent May is best known as a ukulele troubadour, which is precisely why Do Things was so surprising. Here, backed by a full band, May experim...

Montreal's Mac DeMarco might have recently linked up with Captured Tracks to release 2, but don't confuse him with the clean-cut, summery fa...

Hype — right now, METZ has it in fistfuls. Yes, they somehow managed to linked up with Sub Pop for their debut album. Sure, that debut...

Is there a polite way to tell a band that they've overstayed their welcome? Because King Tuff, Kyle Thomas's lobotomized glam-garage project...

Instruments aside, every band has its essential tools, the ornaments, good-luck charms, special attire and other accoutrements that make the...

Purposefully out of step with the shiny circus that is CMJ, James Toth sat wearily before the microphone, declared the CD dead and said, "th...

On paper, it seems like a great idea for a band to play four gigs in three days during a festival like this. But scheduling a show before 1...

Vic Thrill are two Williamsburg wieners who are entirely too old to act this ridiculous: one on guitar, the other punching up the beats on h...

Pit er Pat may be led by an icily detached singer who plays sparse keyboard lines but it’s the drummer who glues everything together with a...