It’s strange that Buddy Holly (someone who looked like a used toaster salesman/Commodore 64 enthusiast) has inspired thousands of tattooed d...

From the point of its inception, blues rock has borrowed from its predecessors with a loaded shotgun and ski mask. For the majority of the g...

The Tractor King’s Gone to Heaven is one of those records that has felt like a lost classic from the moment it was first pressed. The...

It's been six years since the release of Radiohead's OK Computer. The album was a landmark; its floppy-disc folk turned critics into gigglin...

Okkervil River is, at core, a four-piece collective that make an especially rootsy brand of indie pop. Each track on Down the River of Golde...

When a formula works well enough to spawn six critically acclaimed albums, a cult following and be cited as an influence by some of today's...

The shoegazer revival seems to have stalled somewhere between very hip and radically un-hip. While I prefer to ride the coattails of someone...

Besides turning in a disc full of rustic charm, Just About to Burn have also done something some felt impossible: dethrone the Corrs as grou...

Chicago-based artist Matt Marque has pulled an underground all-star cast for a backing band on his sophomore album Nothing Personal. From Wi...

Tres Chicas combine the vocal talents of Whiskeytown’s Caitlin Cary, Glory Fountain’s Lynn Blakey and Tonya Lamm of Hazeldine. The group is...

Every Matchbox 20-loving hack out there has picked up an acoustic guitar and thought that a room full of people could do with another tale o...

Former Gasoline front-man Ken Dirschl has delivered a solid alt-country album with Plan For Conquest. His songs are all well written and des...

The strategy almost worked. By plying their liner notes with pictures of themselves wearing trendy rock t-shirts (Sonic Youth and Morrissey)...

Little Miss Moffat’s Miss Canada is a pleasant, laid-back stab at folk-infused country. While the disc boasts the attendance of more Halifax...

Stevie Tombstone sets a strange contrast. On one hand the instrumental work on his album 7:30 AM is well-executed, sombre country blues. Ped...

At this point most swing band’s albums just kind of feel sad. Still, they’ve all just invested too much money in shitty suspenders and saddl...

Big Head Todd and the Monsters are peddling some seriously boring rock and roll these days. Although few (wisely) cared to take notice, they...

Ho ho ho, this sucks. On their Christmas collection, A Very Special Acoustic Christmas, Lost Highway have combined overdone songs with overh...

Influences don’t always matter. There are a lot of bands that have overcome an affinity for anything from Bread to Jethro Tull and still mad...

On their second album, the Houston Brothers’ ability comes in peaks and valleys. The Asheville, NC-based duo linger in the subdued middle gr...