Sarah Jaffe is a young protégé of Midlake, and on the strength of a single EP, she's earned superlative comparisons to everyone from Neutral Milk Hotel to Patty Griffin. Suburban Nature, her new full-length release, is ready to transcend the Denton, Texas, new-folk sce...

Melanie Fiona, who opened for Alicia Keys earlier this year, has fully transported herself into the '60s with her brilliant debut album, The Bridge. By reviving the urgency and spirited sensuality of the sonic style from the Stax-and-Motown-dominated decade, Fiona has shown that an ...

Balmorhea succeeds where Emerson, Lake and Palmer and the Moody Blues failed. That diseased dream of fusing two antithetical genres — classical and rock — has crippled every other proggy project since "Nights in White Satin" made the London Festival Orchestra a boomer household...

With a simple, sinister walking bass line and percussive stabs on the upper register, Booker T. and the MGs' "Green Onions" remains the gold standard for instrumental organ soul. As the backing band for Stax Records, Booker T. Jones and his bandmates played on a number of unbreakable Memph...

At last year's Illinois State Fair appearance, Heart proved yet again why it's an unstoppable musical force. Guitarist Nancy Wilson, forever an underappreciated talent, shredded like a metal god — even when playing an acoustic — while sister Ann was a tornadic presence demolish...

The flannel-clad fuzz rock of Noah's Ark Was a Spaceship is an ode to the three-year span between Sonic Youth's 1988 masterpiece Daydream Nation and Nirvana's 1991 groundbreaking Nevermind. Excavation of the Omaha trio's Slumber Party Records debut, My Name Is What Is Your...