Joe Tarr

Reportedly recorded in 1966 in a Colorado cabin (with electricity but no running water), the recordings were warm-ups for a gig, and thus never intended to be released as an official album. As such, they have a charming lo-fi quality ...

The Mekons aren’t my favorite band because I believe they’ve made the best music ever. But I can’t think of a cooler band.

Will Oldham, who records most often now as Bonnie “Prince” Billy, says he often tries to work out life’s big questions in song, knowing the effort is doomed to fail.

Carla Bozulich has filled her career—as a solo artist and leader of the bands Ethel Meatplow, the Geraldine Fibbers, and Evangelista—with musical extremes.

On her first solo album, Friedberger doesn’t sound all that much different than the Fiery Furnaces, although she’s less trying than some of her band’s more experimental efforts.

When Jennifer Niceley was living in Nashville, hustling to make it as a singer/songwriter in the Music City, she was often haunted by her family’s farm, Riverplains, in Strawberry Plains.

Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto, who make up the art-pop band the Books, are scavengers in the detritus of pop culture, looking for thrown-away sounds to reimagine. De Jong is the sound archivist of the pair; he’s built up ...

Kat Brock fronted Dixie Dirt, one of the more popular bands to come out of Knoxville in the past decade. They never found much fame beyond their beloved hometown, but in Knoxville, Dixie Dirt had a fanatical following. The band ...

It’s got to be a little intimidating to be Dave Rawlings and find yourself stepping up to a microphone to sing lead on a song. Rawlings is one of the most respected guitar players alive. But he’s best known as ...

There are a lot of stereotypes about dance music—that it’s inauthentic, brainless, hypersexual, aimed at the hips and not the head or the heart. JD Samson, the DJ and leader of the indie dance group M.E.N., wants to change that. ...