The Microphones

Rawlings is best-known for his longtime collaboration, singing of harmony, guitar playing and producing with spartan folkstress Gillian Welch. Read More

In October 2005, blues fan Jeff Konkel sat in a juke joint in rural Mississippi, lamenting the fact that so many of the region's most compelling blues artists were unknown outside of the Delta. Read More

Another of the red threads in the BIS catalog is the complete recording of Sibelius—every note, as von Bahr once declared, in what must have seemed a wildly ambitious aim at the time. Read More

Few things say Hawai'i as instantaneously as kiho'alu, Hawai'i's slack-key guitar music. Read More

Urban Tulsa Weekly 's current issue features The Church Studio on its cover. Read More

I really like going to concerts, but it's actually very rare that I continue to reflect on a show months after it's passed. Read More

Mr. Elverum made most of Mount Eerie's new album, "Wind's Poem," by himself, and released it on his own label, P. W. Elverum & Sun. But he's been using his fellow Pacific-Northwesterner tour mates — the band No Kids and the guitarist Tara Jane O'Neil — to make a stage version of that music: wrath-of-nature, edge-of-the-continent rock. Read More

If you were to ask people about folk music, they'd probably look at you funny. Read More

For seven years, Kamaljit Singh Jhooti, a young singer-songwriter from Hounslow on the western outskirts of London, worked the Asian festival and club scene, trying gig after gig to make a name for himself. Read More

A highly original and melodic modern rock band, Marcy Playground exploded onto the scene back in 1997 with the insanely irresistible hit single "Sex And Candy," a song that notched [a then-record] fifteen consecutive weeks at number one on Billboard's U.S. Modern Rock tracks chart… and a self-titled debut album that went on to sell 1.7 million copies. Read More