Dawes and similar artists

Rooted in jazz, modern funk quartet Lake Street Dive formed fourteen years ago in Boston, according to an interview by Pat Moran. The band's unique na...

The luscious tone this London five-piece achieves with acoustic and electric alike is marvelous. There's an aching loneliness to this tune that absolu...

Dawes and Conor Oberst played a pair of shows at Chicago's Metro as part of a unique tour that featured the Los Angeles folk rockers pulling...

Over the past two months, I've had a few artists in constant rotation: Robert Ellis, Those Darlins, and Caitlin Rose. In a way, they're all sort of re...

Hailing from Nashville, The Features bring a brand of music that certainly doesn't like to be boxed in. Ranging anywhere from the new wave sounds of T...

I don't ever listen to the radio. Does this song get a lot of air time? The way I stumbled on it was fairly organic -- as organic as digital discoveri...

I've a new obsession, and his name is Robert Ellis. Born in small town in Texas, Ellis began performing classic country tunes in 2010, gradually incor...

I've had uniformly positive opinions about Deer Tick, the Providence, Rhode Island band. I've made comparisons between them and The Replacements and T...

Here's the thing about the Greek Theater in Berkeley: it's pretty difficult to have a bad show-going experience there. There's not a bad seat in the h...

I think about my early concert-going experiences pretty often. Music was somehow much simpler to me then -- if it struck some kind of positive emotion...

Formed in February 2011, Parade Grounds was drummed up by Brooklyn-based guitar player and singer Jared Sochinsky. With a self-titled album released l...

Deer Tick get compared to The Replacements a whole lot -- I've done it myself. They manage to evoke the gritty, New York-before-it-was-clean-and-safe ...

Delta Spirit's self-titled third album is finally out -- after two years of anticipation -- and boy does it reach a new height. Armed with strong elec...

Ahh, the supergroup. That strange phenomenon when a group of musician friends from separate bands come together to play tunes that aren't quite the sa...