Although Louis Marshall Jones was only around 30 years old when he cut his first acetate for Syd Nathan’s fledgling Dayton, Ohio-based King Records in 1943, he was already known as Grandpa Jones, earning the nickname because he supposedly sounded like an old man when he spoke on the radio, and over...

Finding out that the release of the Brunettes new album Paper Dolls is somewhat imminent was enough to cheer us up on a cloudy, slightly manic Tuesday. Looks like it comes out in February of next year, which will be here before you know it once we get the holidays out of the way. Even [...]

If you’re in the independent music scene for any amount of time, you find out just how important the people are who aren’t necessarily making music. These could be show promoters who make sure your band is well matched with the rest of a line-up on a Tuesday night; the beautiful bartender at the...

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New Yorkers were treated to a rare performance by Big Star on Wednesday night, when the iconic power-pop band — whose touring lineup now comprises frontman Alex Chilton, longtime drummer Jody Stephens, and Posies members Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow — performed at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple...

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I totally slept on Alphabeat’s newest single when it came out last month. You might have too. Well, we should both wake up because “The Spell” is a total jam. It trades out the Eighties worship of the first album (and the amazingly good singles “Fascination” and “10,000 Nights”) for a much slicker...

Cleveland, Ohio may not seem like a hotspot for indie pop but thanks to Afternoon Naps, the city is home to one of the best indie pop bands anywhere in 2009. Parade, their debut album for indie pop stalwart Happy Happy Birthday to Me, is a short, sweet confection made from a recipe of classic [...]