Of Montreal’s latest effort, Skeletal Lamping, has a track list of titles that sound like bad, teenage metal bands. There’s ...

On 2007’s In the Vines, Castanets leader Ray Raposa fashioned a spooky, beautiful and seemingly offhand folk record that shimmered ...

A sophomore album, with all the mystery and anxiety surrounding its release, is the ultimate test of a fan’s loyalty. ...

In one of those genuinely disturbing coincidences, Esbjörn Svensson Trio’s final studio recording Leucocyte arrived just as the crush of ...

For three albums, Jolie Holland’s warble has meandered from country honky tonks to dimly lit jazz clubs, yet the chanteuse ...

When they opened for Dinosaur Jr. last year at the Valarium, Awesome Color struck me as another band of generic, ...

The sparsely literal title of this CD is fitting. Organ Trio is no-frills and resolutely workmanlike, essentially a bar-band set ...

While 2005’s Black Sheep Boy drew critical admiration for Okkervil River and officially removed the rockers from the relative obscurity ...

Sitting atop the rap world at the moment, at least by the standards of skills, sales and influence, we have ...

Justin Ringle’s three-piece Portland, Ore., outfit Horse Feathers is comparable to any number of indie-folk acts. You know the ones, ...