This Mortal Coil

Speaking on the former frontman of The Smiths, famous for his melancholy lyrics, said that suicide was "an act of great self-control". Read More

Tunes that even selective hearing can't censor. Read More

The music of the band Headlights combines electronica, chamber-folk and drone-pop, highlighted by minimalist, repetitive keyboard and guitar patterns that bring to mind Brian Eno and Philip Glass jamming with Velocity Girl. Singer Erin Fein, who also plays keyboards, escorts the band through this hypnotic landscape with enchanting vocals that hover somewhere between '60s girl groups, '70s bubblegum and classic shoegaze of the 1980s and '90s. Read More

It's a little surprising that until now, no one has put together a tribute album to folk's fertile days in New York's Greenwich Village. 429 Records' new collection titled The Village--A Celebration Of The Music Of Greenwich Village spotlights the historical significance of the neighborhood's folk music scene with passionate contributions by thirteen artists including Rickie Lee Jones, Los Lobos, Bruce Hornsby, Amos Lee, Shelby Lynne, Cowboy Junkies, John Oates, Lucinda Williams, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rachael Yamagata, and others. Read More