Andy Downing

Throughout Earl Sweatshirt's major-label debut, "Doris," the Odd Future rapper struggles to come to terms with the increased spotlight he's been under since returning from Coral Reef Academy--a retreat for...

Rowdy punk rockers Wavves might have embraced a more mature sound on their latest studio album, "Afraid of Heights," but that doesn't mean frontman Nathan Williams is ready to grow...

These past couple of years could best be described as a transitional period for Adam Lukas. The singer/guitarist lost friend and musical foil Mark Frost to a 2011 suicide, abandoned...

Savages, a quartet of English post-punk noisemakers, burst onto the music scene earlier this year promising something different: Silence. "The world used to be silent," they wrote in a manifesto...

The aftermath of Miley Cyrus' performance at the MTV Video Music Awards and news that the word "twerking" had been added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online combined to leave J....

Michael Angelakos is so painfully unguarded it's almost jarring when he chooses to sidestep a question.In a recent phone interview, the Passion Pit frontman didn't flinch when inquiries delved into...

It's a safe bet there was a cache of Twix bars stashed somewhere backstage when Angel Olsen performed last month at the Pitchfork Music Festival."It's the one thing I have...

Though Bonzie just turned 18, the singer-songwriter has already established herself as a force to reckon with on the local scene.Earlier this year she landed a coveted slot opening for...

"I'm trying to catch my breath," sings Smith Westerns frontman Cullen Omori on the local rockers' gorgeous third album, the recently released "Soft Will."Few could blame Omori, who, along with...

Filligar, a band of brothers anchored by siblings Johnny, Ted and Pete Mathias (longtime pal Casey Gibson rounds out the lineup), has become accustomed to life on the road.In addition...