After being discovered at age sixteen when she was still a shy and sullen teen living in the suburbs of Manchester, Karen Elson quickly became one of the most recognizable models of...

What's up with France right now? In the past couple of years the French have given us some of the most mind-blowing pop music since…well, since ever. We'd just gotten over our fixation...

Chances are, if you’ve opened a magazine or looked at a music blog at any point in the past  year, then you already know a thing or two about FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE. If not, then...

The big SXSW music festival went down last week in Austin, Texas and music journalists from all over the globe are still recovering from their hangovers. Now that the dust has settled,...

This week's band to watch is LA-based BEST COAST. Led by the impossibly sassy lady (and former child star) Bethany Cosentino, Best Coast has quickly become one of 2010's first breakout...

Few bands of the past decade can boast the same kind of meteoric and somewhat bewildering rise to fame as that of Vampire Weekend. Even before the NYC-based band had released a full-length...