Michael Dix

Switching things up in music is generally a good thing. Indie bands using African rhythms, hip-hoppers rapping over...

Without even touching upon specific details of their wonderful debut album, Memphis sextet Magic Kids have already earned...

That the massive Fedde Le Grand hit “Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit” is actually based around a...

False Flag is the first recorded collaboration between three of the premier players on the alternative music circuit:...

For a while a few years back, certain more AOR-inclined music publications and old-fart stations like VH1 seemed...

A brief contextual introduction for the uninitiated: the New Pornographers are an indie “supergroup”, led by Carl “A.C.”...

It’s hardly unusual for a record label to promote new bands and artists by proclaiming their songwriting genius;...

Jonas Reinhardt is the recording alias of San Franciscan Jesse Reiner, most probably a cheeky reference to the...

Big Echo is Berkeley, California quartet the Morning Benders’ second full-length, following a string of EPs and a...