Interview

Phoenix's Thomas Mars, playing  a headlining show at a packed Madison Square Garden.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/22/10

It's not a costume that will you get you ready for Halloween this year—it's Down There, the debut solo album by Avey Tare, aka Dave Portner of Animal Collective, due out October 26 on Paw Tracks.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/22/10

For most of his career, James Jackson Toth has recorded as Wooden Wand, but he's never been one to linger too long in one place—neither GPS-wise (he's lived in Staten Island, Purchase, NY, Brooklyn, and now Tennessee) nor musically.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/22/10

Day two of CMJ found us back at Santos Party House, but not before stopping off at The Annex for TheCultureofMe showcase.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/21/10

You already knew we love Oh Land—so it shouldn't come as a surprise that we're already fully obsessed with the new video for her very catchy first single, "Sun of a Gun."  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/21/10

It's a sad day for punk fans: Ariane Forster, better known as Ari Up, the lead singer of The Slits, passed away yesterday at the age of 48.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/21/10

We kicked off CMJ way downtown, visiting Santos Party House for sets by Cerebral Ballzy and KISSES and Pianos for a show by Das Racist.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/20/10

My Morning Jacket plays a sold-out show at Terminal 5.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/20/10

"We write a lot of love songs," Davila 666 frontman Carlitos Davila explains. "It's just that sometimes they are love songs to drugs."  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/19/10

When first writing "Proud Evolution" and the other tracks on Sisterworld in 2008-2009, Liars frontman Angus Andrew was living in a particularly seedy part of Los Angeles, interacting and existing in another side of the same America that was at once celebrating the election of Barack Obama and struggling through an economic crisis and the legalities of gay marriage.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/18/10