Andy Downing

"Oh, you were a part of me," sings Christopher Owens near the close of his solo debut, "Lysandre." "That part of me is gone."While it's clear Owens is singing about...

Tom Krell is no stranger to pain.The musician, who records and performs under the name How to Dress Well, penned much of his sophomore album, the aptly titled "Total Loss,"...

Things have happened quickly for Wild Belle.Brother-sister duo Natalie and Elliot Bergman, who have made music off and on since now-23-year-old Natalie was a teenager, started recording under the name...

Things have happened quickly for Wild Belle.Brother-sister duo Natalie and Elliot Bergman, who have made music off and on since now-23-year-old Natalie was a teenager, started recording under the name...

Most people serving high school suspensions use the extra time to ponder the consequences of their actions. Chance the Rapper used it to launch a music career.The young MC, born...

There's a moment on "Silencing Machine," the sixth full-length studio album from local black metal noisemakers Nachtmystium, where the dark clouds part and things briefly take a more optimistic turn...

Listening to Sharon Van Etten's music, you'd never guess she has a difficult time showing vulnerability.The Jersey-born singer-songwriter's albums are uniformly confessional, steeped in heartache, longing and regret. Listening to...

The term "supergroup" gets tossed around all the time these days. In some cases the label is deserved (The Highwaymen quartet of Cash, Jennings, Nelson and Kristofferson doubled as a...

Chicago rapper Serengeti has always had an active imagination.Growing up, he invented different characters as a means of coping with his nomadic existence (he split his time between his mother's...

Nick Waterhouse might be a young man, but he has an old sound.On his debut album "Time's All Gone," the Los Angeles soul man comes across like a time traveler...