"Wounded" aggressively ventures where the nightly news dares not tread. Read more...

Last November, as I stood among the attentive El Rey crowd and listened to Joanna Newsom explain that she was about to play "Ys" in its entirety, I couldn't help but be a little surprised. Read more...

On two critically acclaimed albums and a new EP, the Hamilton, Ontario, based Junior Boys have proven themselves masters of the electro-croon. Now, they're transferring their cool, studio-based textures to the sunburned fields of Indio at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this Sunday. Read more...

Internationally renowned author T.C. Boyle "“ that's Thomas Coraghessan, for those who don't know "“ kindly says it's an accident that he wound up as a professor at USC instead of UCLA, since USC was the first university that offered him a job after he completed his graduate program in Iowa. Read more...

When I was four years old, my mother would read a bedtime story to me every night before I drifted off into silent slumber. Read more...

Over three decades after first performing at what became New York's punk mecca, Patti Smith has outlasted most of her CBGB contemporaries. Yet time hasn't dulled her passion. Read more...

Face it. Particularly in the case of shoegaze, it's never going to be as genuine as the late '80s, early '90s cusp. But entrenched in a battlefield of U.S. v. U.K. musical warfare dating back to the '60s, many current bands continue to fight the good fight. Read more...