Will Oldham

As 2009 slips safely into memory, a handful of memorable nights gleam from the agreeable blur: the coda of Steve Bernstein's springtime collaboration with Fight the Big Bull in the jewel box confines of Cous Cous; the Low Anthem's outsized versatility in an almost empty Canal Club. Brian Jones' annual Musicircus swelled to fill the maze of the Visual Arts Center. Read More

I used to be darker, then I got lighter, then I got darker again," sings Bill Callahan on "Jim Cain," the first track on his 13th album, Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle. Read More

If you're asking yourself this morning if we're openly schilling for ThinkIndie.com, the answer to that question is YES, yes we are. Read More

Written in Seattle, and betraying an obvious nostalgia for chief songwriter Ben Bridwell's native North Carolina, Band Of Horses' strident debut offered a simplified, but no less effective, take on My Morning Jacket's concept of cosmic Americana. Read More

Since the late '70s, Chris Knox's can-do attitude has inspired a long list of musicians both here and overseas. Read More

There are plenty of people, myself included, who will argue (far too long into the night) that alt-country icon Will Oldham (left) was at his very best on the first album to utilise his Bonnie "Prince" Billy pseudonym; 1999's "I See a Darkness". Read More

He is now on the faculty of the M.F.A. program in creative writing and environment at Iowa State University and has just moved to Ames, Iowa. I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic. Read More

The crowd included people who'd had to travel to get there: siblings had come from Florida and Germany, and one of Patsy's old high school friends had driven in from Indiana. Read More

After seeing you guys put on really energetic shows over the last few years, I was a little surprised by One Life Stand , which sounds like your most low-key album to date. Read More

After seeing you guys put on really energetic shows over the last few years, I was a little surprised by One Life Stand , which sounds like your most low-key album to date. Read More