Scott Morrow

On tour in support of her third LP, the new On Dark Horses (Sargent House), singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle brings her captivating guitar sounds and ghostly vocals to the Empty Bottle for a set of haunting, melancholic postrock. Formerly of dreamy postrock trio Marriages and instrumental rock band Red Sparowes, Rundle has a style reminiscent of doomy shoegazers True Widow, but she imbues it with a folksy darkness that’s heavy on melody. Drenched in reverb, distortion, and other effects, he...

If you’ve seen NY Ink or America’s Worst Tattoos on TLC, you know tattoo artist Megan Massacre (neé Woznicki) as the petite, countercultural sparkplug with a vibrant color palette. But contrary to how easy she makes it look on TV, the southeastern Pennsylvania native didn’t get here overnight.

Design Bureau's four-year anniversary issue features four special guest editors across architecture, product design, industrial design, and photography, opening up about what inspires them most.

Growing up in Birmingham, England, Sasha Vallely idolized the American West from afar, falling for the romanticized mythos of the desert.

Flying Lotus may come from L.A.’s experimental hip-hop scene, but he has jazz in his blood.

After 30 years spent making oddball rock music with a modicum of mainstream appeal, The Flaming Lips have built up quite the Rolodex of talented collaborators, friends, and contacts—most recently used on its star-studded The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends album. Now Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, and company have set their sights on the Beatles’ iconic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, turning in a full cover album as performing artists, curators, and artistic directors.

Some musicians achieve broad success, some attain cult status, and some defy all explanation. And then there’s Mike Patton, who somehow has done all three.

With a few seasons of Portlandia in the books, sketch master and former Trenchmouth drummer Fred Armisen has helped spawn a renewed interest in the The City of Roses (aided, of course, by the talents of ex-Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein).

18 YEARS AFTER THEIR LAST ALBUM, THE ALTERNATIVE ROCK ICONS ADD TO THEIR UNTARNISHED LEGACY.

With its first studio LP of new material in five years, the acoustic-rock duo scales back the Latin influence and channels more of its inner metal.

Whether it’s film scores, production music or full-blown orchestral performances, musicians in rock and pop have long dabbled in the finer musical arts. But The National’s Bryce Dessner is no curious onlooker, looking to extend a successful indie-rock career.

Formed by a trio of brothers 10 years ago, French furniture-maker Ego Paris strives for design that blends the human and the industrial....

You’ve seen the rest of the year-end lists. You know their story: compiled more from group-think than a list of purely amazing albums. So, as one of the final lists to go online, we’ve saved the best for last.

"I’m going to work my ass off and write about love like you wouldn’t believe, and I’m going to make it fun, exciting, dark, sorrowful, and sexy."

Ben Shepherd might be best known as the bassist in Soundgarden from 1991′s Badmotorfinger to present, but the multi-instrumentalist has always been an unsung songwriting talent, and—aside from a brief hiatus—he’s always been putting out tunes.