Built To Spill

Wagons Ida-ho! Boise’s Built to Spill heads west

Boise rock band Built to Spill has announced a short batch of West Coast tour dates for early February before…

Melvins, Hella, Why?, Rob Crow share new tracks for Joyful Noise flexi-disc subscription

Joyful Noise Recordings is offering exclusive seven-inch recordings from a glut of great bands -- including Melvins, Hella, and Why?…

ALARM’s guide to Record Store Day 2012

Tomorrow is the third Saturday in April, which means that independent record stores across the world will face an influx…

Hopscotch Festival 2012 lineup revealed

Some big names in independent music will roll through Raleigh, NC this September 6-8 for The Independent Weekly’s third annual…

Contest: Win tickets to Champaign-Urbana’s Pygmalion Music Festival

Held in Champaign-Urbana, IL (the home of the University of Illinois), the Pygmalion Music Festival 2010 will take place September…

Poster Art: Mara Piccione’s Anthropomorphism

Netherlands-based artist Mara Piccione explores love, childhood, nightmares, sadness, mental illness, and the “beauty of it all” in her silk-screened,…

Pitchfork Festival 2009, Notes from the Park

In our download-obsessed culture, music has increasingly become a private experience for many people, and it is exciting to be…