This year has been a pretty busy one for Craig Finn. He released a new album with his band, The Hold Steady, as well as...

Three years ago a young artist from Boston, Alice Howe, captured people's attention with her singing and her songs at the...

When I first saw Northern Ireland’s Naomi Hamilton play live as Jealous of the Birds a few years back in a small church in...

The political is personal and hope lives with darkness on Jesca Hoop’s fifth solo album, Stonechild, perhaps her most...

Shawn Colvin is a treasured friend with a big anniversary to celebrate and a fresh approach to the album that made her a...

Over the past two decades, The New Pornographers have amassed an amazingly consistent catalog of great records. Whether it’s...

When Pieta Brown released her debut album in 2002, some may have written it off as nepotism, since she's the daughter of a...

Mike Scott and The Waterboys still seem “new wave,” but they are very much old school — a blast of ‘80s ambition that has...

Kim Gordon's No Home Record is a tough, sexy album and it sounds exactly like what you'd expect from her solo debut, after...

Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter Melina Duterte, who records as Jay Som, has been making music since she was a kid...