But I Just Like Music

Recently we got the chance to sit down with the up-and-coming Seattle hip-hop duo, Grieves and Budo. Having spent time this past summer on the Warped Tour, Grieves and Budo are currently touring in support of their new release, Together/Apart. Grieves and Budo have ties to two of the biggest regions for underground hip-hop in [...]

We do a lot of disparaging of pop bands around here. Let’s face it, we’re at the point where very few indie music fans are going to claim Foster the People on their best bands of 2011 list. It’s like there’s an imaginary line that bands cross that move them immediately from indie to, well, [...]

For years, Andy Bothwell, AKA Astronautalis, has been compulsively traveling, spitting his whiskey-soaked sermons in town after town, baptising audiences of hip-hop heads, drunks, punks, indie kids, and anyone else with an ear he can shout into. Initially coming up in the battle rap scene via Jacksonville, Florida, Andy diverged from his roots in freestyling [...]

“Why?” It’s a simple question we all ask for endless reasons, from the mundane to the complex, from the concrete to the abstract. Accordingly, it seems that this vast question is the perfect banner under which Yoni Wolf and the rest of the Cincinnati-based band WHY? release their genre-defying brand of music, almost as if [...]

There’s an indie scene that’s brewing in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana. We caught up with one Bloomington-based band recently – Outdoor Velour, the self-described “fuzztown” indie pop band comprised of a chatty, married Midwestern couple. Greg Simpson and Cara Kinnally have only been playing together as Outdoor Velour since late last year, but [...]

If you’ve heard about the new Fort Worth Music Festival (formerly Jazz By the Boulevard) but aren’t sure it’s worth it, here’s one reason to go this year: alt-country/punk rock-turned-rock n’ roll Memphis outfit Lucero is playing. In the midst of Warped Tour, Brian Venable, guitarist for Lucero, took some time to speak with us [...]

Claiming inspiration from a range of musical talents like The Nationals and Neil Young, The North Decade, a five-piece indie rock band from Springfield, MO, is trying to achieve something a lot of bands overlook these days: to create a statement about the culture they live in while connecting with fans on a personal level. [...]

When you think about the live music scene in Fort Worth, you think of bands like Calhoun, Telegraph Canyon and Whiskey Folk Ramblers. And maybe, just maybe, you’ll think about Phantom Caste — a band that, since its first show ever in Jan. 2010, has gotten considerable praise and recognition. For a band this new, [...]

From their start as just another local band in late 2005, Fort Worth’s Telegraph Canyon has become widely recognized and acclaimed over the past few years for their unique brand of folksy indie rock with an old-timey Southern feel. Their music is simple, honest and full of emotion. They have been recognized by big name music [...]