Interview

Meeting or even reading about bands is often disillusioning; your personal interpretation of their songs is shattered by the all-too-human personalities of the band members. This is not the case with Bowerbirds, whose lead members, Philip Moore and Beth Tacular, seem to fit their ethereal folk music almost too perfectly.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/05/12

It's been a while since we last heard anything from Manchester-based Katie White and Jules de Martino, who together make up The Ting Tings, but now they're back with their second album, Sounds From Nowheresville.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/05/12

In a land where bands run plentiful, Brooklyn threesome Hospitality has found its niche. Signed with Merge Records, lead singer and guitarist Amber Papini, bassist Brian Betancourt, and percussionist Nathan Michel have spent the past five years perfecting the elements of a sound that is as effortless as it is charming, like the vintage picture of friends on a boat cruising into a foggy future that covers their recent first album.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/02/12

"Chin," the latest track from dreamy Danish shoegazers Sleep Party People, propels its listener into the illusory state that exists between sleep and consciousness.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/02/12

Toronto band Young Empires stands out in a sea of similar band names, with music that draws from different genres and eras.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/01/12

Why does the world love Katy Perry? The conventional wisdom is that if you have to ask the question, then you’ll never fully understand the answer—although, tens of millions of people do, which is why she is one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. But after a titanic and tumultuous year that began with an epic world tour, hit its peak with a run of five No. 1 singles, and ended with her husband of 15 months, comedian Russell Brand, filing for divorce, Perry is now out to prove that she’s something else, too: unsinkable  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/01/12

If the thought of what you missed by not attending Marilyn Manson's wedding has bothered you for the past seven years, let us enlighten you and ease your restless mind. What you missed, friend, was German singer Max Raabe performing with his Palast Orchester in a castle in Ireland.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/29/12

Zeb Malik is the founding—and currently the only—member of POPO, a grunge-rock concept that sounds a bit like Joy Division doing a Bollywood soundtrack.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/28/12

British singer-songwriter Neon Hitch's life has been about as normal as her name would suggest. "The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15," she says. "I have done my fair share of traveling, that's for sure."  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/28/12

The precocious Beth Jeans Houghton has been on tastemakers' radar for three years now. Back then, at the end of her teens, the girl from northeast England was hailed as an ingénue making "sweet and gentle folk music." But with her album Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose complete, and with her band The Hooves Of Destiny behind her, the results sound anything but.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/28/12