British pseudo-punk quartet Arctic Monkeys established a sound with its first album and solidified that sound with a second. Now begins the tricky [...]

Thank you, Cesária Évora.On a visit to the United States in the ’90s, the “barefoot diva” of the Cape Verde (C.V.) islands provided [...]

Pile onto the Marble Brewery patio (First Street and Marble NW, 21+) for garage punk supreme by The Scrams. 8 p.m. and free, [...]

MV & EE plays with sound in the form of electrified acoustic instruments (and vice-versa in Thurston Moore’s trippy Ecstatic Peace! label recordings.) [...]

An obvious labor of love, Sweet is 11 tracks of swinging, straight-ahead jazz. Seven original compositions from Jan McDonald (trumpet, flumpet) and producers [...]

Antique Scream is a bluesy, ’70s inspired psychedelic rock outfit. Or, as lead singer and guitarist Chris Rutledge puts it, "We’re sweaty, balls-out [...]

In a way, The Thermals is the quintessential indie band. It’s attracted major label interest since forming in 2002, but its loyalty to [...]

The Dandy Warhols is a band of many sonic hats. As its punny moniker suggests, the Portland four-piece harkens back to ’60s bohemia, [...]

French indie-folk foursome My Name Is Nobody crossed the Atlantic to play with Grave of Nobody’s Darling and Albuquerque Boys Choir. Say “Bonjour” [...]