Here's the thing about Of Montreal: they would have been perfectly fine sticking to their second-wave position in Athens' sprawling Elephant 6 collective. (See also: such friends and collaborators as N …

To understand how far Of Montreal's come since forming in the mid-'90s, you might wanna compare their Cherry Peel debut against, well, every album since. After all, the band's refused to sit sti …

Listening to the Weepies can be like tumbling out of bed with a half-remembered song in your head that you think you merely dreamed of, and then discovering that same dreamy tune lives and breathes in  …

Before they started a Weepie world together, Steve Tannen and Deb Talan were solo singer-songwriters, each pursuing their own paths to folk-pop glory. Solo Steve's "San Francisco," from his pre-Weepies …

Everything people loved about the Kinks in the '60s - their raw rock 'n' roll riff-fests, their laser-guided social satire, their flair for drama - bore even bigger, juicier fruit in the decades that f …

The Kinks put the pedal to the metal - literally - in the late '70s for a bigger, harder sound that finally made them U.S. stadium-rock stars. Even the explosive early tunes they revisited on their '79 …

If you've ever seen a Mates of States show, you know the deal: keyboardist Kori Gardner and drummer Jason Hammel are the kind of couple that projects nothing but pure joy onstage, as they plow through  …

As much as we love the stripped-down sound of Mates of States' first three full-lengths - the hook-heavy trifecta of My Solo Project, Our Constant Concern, and Team Boo - the Essen …

An unlikely bunch of rock heroes, the Smithereens were four Beatles-worshipping guys from New Jersey who hit the high end of the charts with a classic power-pop sound in the heyday of Whitesnake and Wi …