Looking ahead to 2012, The Alternate Side staff — not normally betting folk — are gambling that bands and artists like...

What we really enjoyed in 2011, leaping from The Black Keys to tUnE-yArDs to Elbow to Little Dragon.

London rockers The Duke Spirit don't release their third album, Bruiser, Stateside until January 17 (with a digital release...

With their effusive, dreamy, retro-60s girl group panache, Radiation City, out of Portland, Oregon, cut their own warm...

British singer, songwriter and remixer-in-demand Hugo Manuel has been very active doing double duty with two projects: his...

Singer and songwriter Thomas Dybdahl is a platinum-selling artist in his native Norway, winning the equivalent of his...

Producer and composer Danger Mouse and his frequent collaborator, Italian composer Daniele Luppi, embarked on a remarkable...

It would be erroneous to call PJ Harvey's brilliant new album, Let England Shake, a mere collection of anti-war, protest...

The decidedly dramatic Anna Calvi launches her long-overdue North American tour later this month, arriving at New York's...

The trajectory of Noah and the Whale's career has been carefully crafted over three albums, from the deceptively sunny...