Vocalist Karl Hyde talks, moans, whispers — and oh yeah, sings — in an always-captivating way, and his wordplay adds still more to the charm....
The storied 9:30 Club is launching its own label with a release from Virginia native Justin Jones, who makes dark, country-tinged rock. On Tuesday, 9:30...
The Athens, Ga., band Of Montreal has ties to the French Canadian city in name only — but critics love their indie-rock just the same....
''I'm not just exclusively living a bear life,'' laughs Bob Mould. But gay bear life has certainly been good to Mould, who moved from D.C....
Born 24 years ago in Wales to Welsh and Greek parents, Marina Diamandis comes across like a smarter, more musically adept Ke$ha or Katy Perry...
Hotspur returns for another energetic headlining gig at the venerated hometown 9:30 Club. The band's brand of Coldplay-eseque pop-rock is so catchy, the melodies and...
Kele Okereke, the 28-year-old lead singer of the popular British indie-rock group Bloc Party, came out publicly as gay earlier this year. He's already tired...
Patterson Hood creates rock albums with friends under the band name Drive-By Truckers. The albums are fashioned like low-budget films, filled with carefully told, fiercely...
Sia Furler is honored to be Christina Aguilera's ''bitch.'' Furler, who records under her first name, just wrapped up work co-writing for Aguilera, as well...
Never mind the down economy. In a different kind of bear market - and in pop music in general - Richard Morel is having a...
Aimee Mann writes wistfully about faded glory on her latest album. ''It must be hard seeing the same old crowd just pass you by on...
Choreographer Daniel Phoenix Singh wanted to pay respect to what he's seen at Chaos, Zanzibar and Town. ''Just take some ideas you see in a...
According to indie rock musician Bob Mould, this Saturday's Blowoff will ''probably just be the usual really good fun, the really sexy party, the great...
When Bob Mould moved to Washington three years ago in June of 2002, he was at a crossroads in his life. Recently fully out, the...
Bob Mould has never been easy to categorize. When he fronted the trailblazing alternative band Hüsker Dü from 1979 to 1987, it wasn't exactly punk...