One of the most celebrated new bands of 2004, the Arcade Fire came out of Montreal's vibrant music scene with a melancholic, cinematic sound equally redolent of '80s heroes like the Cure and Echo & the Bunnymen and latter-day orchestral-rockers Mercu…

While a rotating cast of instrumentalists find loose assembly under the Pinback name the partnership of Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow is at the heart of the some of the most complex postmodern indie pop happening on the West Coast In the fi…

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the Decemberists burst onto the indie-rock scene in the early 2000s, weaving complex, literary narratives (courtesy of singer/songwriter Colin Meloy) through layers of chiming, acoustic-based folk-rock. Meloy's literary…

Rogue Wave was formed in 2002 when Zach Rogue took off from his San Francisco home headed for New York and came home with nearly a full albums worth of songs recorded Rogue then quit his post in his previous group the Desoto Reds and finished the alb…