They formed in Scotland in the mid-'90s, greatly inspired by Nirvana; they released debut album Blackened Sky in 2002; but it wasn't until the arrival of their fourth studio LP — Puzzle — …

June Tabor possesses a voice that can compact centuries, reanimating traditional songs composed by troubadours long dead, yet she also has the talent to raise modern material (like Elvis Costello's "Al …

Like Sufjan Stevens and Joanna Newsom, Bonnie "Prince" Billy — one of several professional names used by Kentucky native Will Oldham — dwells in a corner of American folk that makes a virtue of eclecti …

A handful of legendary guitarists can lay claim to the title World's Greatest Axe Man — but one player dominates the five-string banjo like no other: Béla Fleck, who wields his 'jo with peerless skill  …

There's no shortage of grim wit and kitchen-sink drama in the work of I Am Kloot, elevated into the realms of the sublime by finessed arrangements and the often spectral vocals of frontman/songwriter J …

À en juger par une poignée d'EP et trois albums en date, ni la créativité ni l'intelligence ne manquent aux Wolf Parade, ce groupe de Montréal qui s'est révélé au public en jouant en première partie d' …

From the moment the Charlatans blew us away, back in 1990, with their breakthrough single "The Only One I Know", with its fizzing bursts of Hammond organ, it was clear that the band was something speci …

Three superbly imaginative albums, reclusive/obsessive recording methods (in a converted Reading pig farm), a flair for creative risks, throwback Rod Stewart hair — the Cooper Temple Clause became a st …

The succinctly named Gob, formed in 1994, was one of the mainstays of Canada's mid-'90s pop-punk assault. The quartet exploded out of Vancouver like a potato from an exhaust pipe, riding a thermo-nucle …