Bits

Published on August 5th, 2018

Years go by and Gainesville, Florida keeps on keeping on. Synonymous with DIY punk rock and college culture for close to four decades, the deceptively »

Published on August 4th, 2018

Zigtebra could be your best friend’s indie band. They send postcards from their van to fans who leave them concert reviews on Facebook and, as »

Published on August 3rd, 2018

Change is good. Imagine a world in which we’re grooving to the likes of the Tea Set, the Salty Peppers and the Weak Heart Drops »

Published on July 31st, 2018

There’s something playfully snobby about the name Champagne Superchillin’ yet also kind of innocent, as though a French person trying to explain her culture to »

Published on July 21st, 2018

Halftime for American Football lasted almost 15 years. For 15 years after the 1999 release of their self-titled full-length debut, the emo trio from Urbana, »

Published on July 14th, 2018

Burlesque runs the gamut of outlandish ideas in its dedication to keeping an audience rapt and celebrating the seductiveness of the female form. Some troupes »

Published on July 13th, 2018

KC and the Sunshine Band have a history made for the movies: Blue eyed-soul singer from the mean streets of Hialeah finds a kindred spirit »

Published on July 12th, 2018

Noise rock is gloriously difficult to describe. Take the Melvins, Cows, Jesus Lizard and Butthole Surfers — now try to explain what they sound like »

Published on July 7th, 2018

Four barrels, four speeds, dual exhausts — the pervasive rumble of the American muscle car embodies a bygone era of can-do dispositions, no-dream-is-too-small spirits and »

Published on July 6th, 2018

Rock ’n’ roll is a bastard beast and it is nothing new for musicians to tap into its innermost troubled childhood and mine for more. »

Published on July 1st, 2018

How many times have the British invaded America? From Beatlemania and the Stones,  on through Bowie, Elton John, the Spice Girls and Oasis, the Brits »

Published on June 27th, 2018

Poison is a band whose members’ work in reality television may surpass their musical output in silliness, but only by a hair. Yet the legend »