Press Here Tight-knit music scenes tend to get a bit incestuous over time. Band members start offshoot bands, others go solo yet everyone manages to make guest appearances at one another's shows. Just ask the always-shapeshifting Broken Social Scene, now on hiatus, and their countless spawns and crossovers. Something similar went down in West ...

Courtesy of John Mann Spirit of the West frontman John Mann's voice is perhaps best immortalized year after year in university dorm rooms to the tune of their foot-stompin' frosh week anthem 'Home for a Rest.' But if he wasn't at his best then, he surely is now. Fresh off back-to-back trips to Swaziland, Mann has just released a new single in ...

Dominic Storer If you've got sweet moves you can try your damnedest to make it on 'So You Think You Can Dance,' or you can do what Friendly Fires' Ed Macfarlane has done and show off your fancy footwork any ol' time you have an audience. Macfarlane has been the ringleader of many a dance party around the world as frontman of the British ...

Getty Images All that saving of daylight you did over the past seven months is about to come to an end and mornings are about to get dark before they get darker. Waking up is hard to do at the best of times, and even harder when those of us in northern climes tilt away from the sun for a ...

Universal If you're a musician from the outskirts of Detroit, tapping into the stylings of Motown-era greats like Smokey Robinson or the Dramatics, you're going to get some labels slapped on you pretty quickly. Mayer Hawthorne's modernized take on the classic genre has been dubbed "neo-soul" and a "throwback" while he's been called a ...

Dominic Storer There are bad days, bad weeks and even bad months. But Brit electro-pop band Friendly Fires had one hell of the latter this past August. Not even three months into their tour to support their sophomore record, 'Pala,' the three-man core of the group got the news that their live backing trumpet player, Richard Turner, 27, had ...

Tim Mosenfelder, Getty Images "Acoustic Covers of Hip-Hop Songs" isn't yet an item on the list of 'Stuff White People Like' but "Self-Aware Hip Hop References" is, and that's almost the same thing. Judging by the artists behind these cover gems on our list of the best non-rap ...