Only ask for what you need. This isn’t a teenage negotiation with your parents for movie money. Don’t ask for $50 in secret hopes of only getting $20.

Jeff McLaughlin spills about where the band name came from, their local musical role models, and what they’re doing to support the local Red Bull and smokeless tobacco economy.

And what they can teach you about how to make it in the music business.

This is the fourth solo album from the artist who has also worked with Azure Ray, Now It’s Overhead and Bright Eyes. In writing about finding a new direction, she has found one.

Virgnia Beach’s K Scott reps VA to the fullest. Just listen to the amazing “Central VA” – her love song about coming up in Farmville – and just try to fight the urge to throw two up, two down.

Q&A with Hole’s opening band, the flamboyantly loud and adorably focused Foxy Shazam.

Caitlyn Hayes explores why she became a writer and her sister a musician–blaming it partially on night dwarves in farmhouse attics.

I was a bit surprised when my editor at The Los Angeles Free Press told me that Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, wanted me to interview him.

Mira breaks out her Sunday best for the world famous Harlem Gospel Choir.

His power to haunt is real, and his insistence on humanistic purity is clear in every note.

…So, yea, turn down the lights, pour a glass of wine, negotiate the fees required for your particular “party” if necessary… and then turn on the music.

Heads up to all you kids who like that whole Chicago post rock sound: Tortoise is releasing new material… for the first time in 5 years.