Toronto hellions Jesse F. Keeler and Sebastien Grainger are loud, hirsute and startlingly fun for a band that writes songs about "cum shelve...

The Candidates dodged CMW’s milieu of cologne and cowboy-hat sportin’ Albertans. Pity, since both parties generally like their music loud an...

Wolfmother face three formidable hindrances to becoming the "sprawling beast” that they purport to be. The first is their name. We don’t nee...

"Yet there are some of us who grieve/To go behind;/Staunch strenuous souls who scarce believe/Their fires declined.” This was Thomas Hardy t...

Biz Markie once wrote a song about taking a shit. Ambulance Ltd., I sense, have similar musical powers — not lyrically, but tunefully, their...

Like several bands of the past 26 years, Editors cull the vernal, yet dyspeptic, pastures of Joy Division, but have a more eager willingness...

Turn all amplifiers and mics up; add a drum fill as often as possible; noise upon noise, and then more noise, and then more. Souls She Said...

Good music has never been a particularly blithe affair. There always seems to be more Cures and Elliott Smiths than, say, Broken Social Scen...

Good music has never been a particularly blithe affair. There always seems to be more Cures and Elliott Smiths than, say, Broken Social Scen...

When Liars released They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top in 2002, they appeared to be a juggernaut of vociferous, dance...

Like several bands of the past 26 years, Editors cull the vernal, yet dyspeptic, pastures of Joy Division, but have a more eager willingness...

Not enough simply being a video game, Stubbs the Zombie also has an accompanying soundtrack and, presumably, Benjamin Moore paint hue. Not s...

Somewhere between A-Ha and Muse lie Mew and their front-man Jonas Bjerr’s impossible falsetto. On their second proper North American release...

A friend of mine recently got into a car accident which left him with a broken collarbone, windshield shards in his face, a black eye and sw...

It's 36 degrees and the overhead sun beats down unimpeded on the patio of an Indian restaurant where Black Rebel Motorcycle Club drummer Nic...

When you're a sedulous road-warrior like QOTSA front-man Josh Homme, you don't take time off touring when you meet a girl, you ask her to co...

For most musicians, the hardest part of disbanding is rarely the break-up itself, but picking up the pieces and moving on. Judging by the op...

Few things encapsulate our great country like a pair of Canadian geese feasting on a patch of pubic hair, fingernails and other assorted goo...

Nothing but unfettered creativity can come when a notoriously histrionic band cloisters themselves deep in the woods of, err, New Jersey to...

Along with "comeback album" and "with accompaniment from the London Philharmonic Orchestra," the words "concept album" generally do a pretty...