• “Intimate, confessional… Lovely, late-night album” – MOJO [Minor Works] “A wonderfully surefooted debut (sic) packed with blood, sweat, tears and desperation” – The Word, UK [Minor Works] "Singer/songwriter J. Tillman’s music paints languid, sadly beautiful portraits of love and life…

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A beautiful woman sings, dances, plays the piano, and we all fall in love. With one hand, he plays Keys with the other, he bangs, shakes,and kicks anything he can reach. As a child, he didn’t want to play the Piano… (Read More)

At a recent Jaguar Love show, according to their guitarist, Cody Votolato, two fans were less than impressed with their originality. "I heard this dude in the audience ask his friend, ’What’s up with this singer? He’s just rip ping off… (Read More)

Since her initial release, Hunter has repeatedly toured North America and Europe, joined forces with Castanets as their sometimes touring bass player and vocalist, guested on albums by CocoRosie and Metallic Falcons, played at the Banhart-curated All Tomorrow’s Parties, recorded a… (Read More)

Januar [yah-new-wahr], Icelandic for January, is a Denver-based “trio” who creates atmospheric indie-pop in the vein of Low, Pedro the Lion, and Mojave 3. The intricate harmonies of married couple Jeremy (guitar, bass, vocals) and Amy (guitar, vocals) and Patty (drums… (Read More)

Japandroids (aka JPNDRDS) is a two piece band from Vancouver, BC. This ‘band’ started in 2006 as a creative outlet for the post-teenage angst of Brian King and David Prowse. Originally intended to be a trio, the boys decided to forgo… (Read More)

Besides the usual pastimes like flogging the elderly and looking at my chest hairs I do so enjoy cooking, well, eating really, chillaxing on my porch wit mah homies, pornography, reading the Bible, and cheeses of the world. Jason also plays… (Read More)

The Axe That Chopped The Cherry Tree was a band that formed in 2005 by students attending the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado that aimed to do one thing: Give glory to God by playing amazing music. As mentioned… (Read More)

Jeff Hanson’s voice is his defining trait, but listeners who get preoccupied with the ethereal, ladylike falsetto run the risk of ignoring the “songwriter” part of “singer-songwriter.” His third album, Madam Owl, doesn’t differ much technically from its predecessors, adding flourishes… (Read More)

“Fans of the raw nerve honesty of Neil Young and Richard Thompson will especially dig this album… Hamer has established himself as a unique talent” -Lyons Recorder (Read More)

Members of Planes Mistaken For Stars, Red Cloud West, Subpoena The Past, Git Some, etc. (Read More)

A Texas originated team The Jen Korte Band has been playing for going on 3 years on and off. They have just recently gotten back together and are overtaking the Denver music scene with a quickness.Including being written up as Denver… (Read More)

Best buddies playing together for many many moons! Now taste our heat!!! MySpace Layouts (Read More)

Two years after the release of Jennifer Gentle’s critically acclaimed Sub Pop debut Valende, the Italian psychedelic avant-pop explorers are back with The Midnight Room. And, while the band is five members strong when they play live, with the recent departure… (Read More)

“…tidy and infectious songs.” -The New York Times " Some people may have found her near-perfect 2006 album, “Over the Mountain, Across the Valley and Back to the Stars” (Matador), because of its guest stars—James McNew, of Yo La Tengo, and… (Read More)

Jenny Owen Youngs is a feisty, hyper-sensitive, disease-free singer/songwriter/former girl scout who wants to be your friend. claiming influences from Beck to Jesus Christ Superstar to Britney Spears, her music is an echo of Erin Mckeown hopping into Jeff Buckley’s Pontiac… (Read More)

Jeremy Jay lives in Angel town, next to Larchmont where he hangs out. He‘s tall (6‘3) blond (really) and handsome and wants a cat for his appartment. He writes and plays piano and guitar. He says one of his… (Read More)

Glitter in the Gutter is the new album from NYC’s Jesse Malin, an artist who has transcended tags like “singer/songwriter” for something different and largely indefinable. Penned “a fearless storyteller”, after releasing two critically acclaimed albums The Fine Art of Self… (Read More)

The 19-year old from Kent, Ohio first performed with her family band One Way Rider at the age of eight. At age 15, she recorded her first album “White Lies” in her brother’s bedroom, printing only 100 copies. One of those… (Read More)

Jim McTurnan is now doing some solo stuff, post CAT-A-TAC, with a new band and a new record on the way. The songs here were recorded over 3 days in late Feb 2009, after only being a band for about 6… (Read More)

Chicago’s Joan of Arc is never reliant on the status quo. In the course of their history, the band’s recorded output has elicited not only critical praise through challenging the norms of traditional songwriting, but also significant backlash from reviewers who… (Read More)

Singer/songwriter Sampson has the kind of 3:00am voice that’s equal parts chain-smoke and liquid vicodin. The enclosed EP displays a weariness that, thankfully, does not inspire weariness in the listener, but instills a welling sense of release. Laconic vocals brush against… (Read More)

BOOM CHH BOOM CHH BZZZ AHHH! BOOM CHH BOOM BOOM AHH! (Read More)

Raucously riveting. Wistfully wry. Unflinchingly unabridged. We are Joey Cougar & The Starfish. We are throwing down a lo-fi sonic vibe right on top of your head in Salt Lake City. We know you hanker for a hunk of heady humour-filled… (Read More)

Johan the Angel’s most interesting particular of its history might be the brevity of its beginning. Brett Pedersen and Britt White met in the sylvan backdrops of Portland, Oregon, when introduced by a friend they shared in common. Three weeks later… (Read More)

Midnight tangos with ghosts, journeys into the minds of suicidal insects, childhood memories set off-kilter by bad dreams: reality is sometimes elusive but always uniquely beautiful in the world of Johanna Kunin’s melodic meditations. She may sing you an infectious pop… (Read More)

I don’t have a publicist or staff writer so I am not going to write this like I do. I have tried that before and it just sounds weird. I am a real person, just like you, this what I’ve come… (Read More)

JOHN COMMON sometimes wishes he were a filmmaker or a painter, but due to a run-in with his brother’s record collection at an impressionable age, he ended up with a bad case of the rock and an obsession for making… (Read More)

Dj John Hill from Dressy Bessy and The Apples In Stereo spins groovy tunes from the 60’s to today. Tuesdays at Sputnik. (Read More)

Don’t call it a concept, but on Pixel Revolt, there are four songs directly pertaining to September 11th and what followed. “Plymouth Rock” tells the story about a soldier’s first and possibly last sortie in Iraq, with the swooning and swirling… (Read More)