Joshua Klein

It may seem risky to launch a U.S. tour before your hotly anticipated second album hits the shelves, but rest assured: Mumford & Sons' sophomore release "Babel" (due Sept. 24)...

Things were looking better than ever for Dan Bejar last year, which could have been a problem for a songwriter used to working under the radar. After working steadily in...

With its impressive heft and gaping mouth, the bass saxophone is one imposing hunk of brass. But when the Michigan-raised and Montreal-based Colin Stetson finally hoisted the huge horn as...

It was four decades ago this year that the Flatlanders formed, and shortly thereafter faded away. Yet as befits an act once famously tagged "more a legend than a band,"...

Leading her band St. Vincent at a sold out Vic Friday night, Annie Clark spent much of her time on stage nearly stock still, a porcelain statue dressed in black,...

There's a strange alchemy at work in Spiritualized, the band Jason Pierce has fronted since 1990. On its surface, the music mines many of the same themes, musical or otherwise,...

On any given night, the Best Band in the Country is playing, somewhere, and the only way you'd know it is if you were there. Still, there are a handful...

If there were any doubt about the Belgian-Australian artist known as Gotye's rising stardom, one need only cite his impressive venue leaps for his Chicago debut, from a room that...

It's been a strange 10 or so years since Andrew W.K. released his brilliantly dumb breakthrough "I Get Wet," a disc that combined the cartoonish focus of the Ramones, the...

Stephin Merritt looked like he'd rather be anyplace else but the Vic Monday night, for the first of two shows with his band the Magnetic Fields, and it's possible his...