There was a point after Nada Surf's second album, 1998's 'The Proximity Effect,' when singer Matthew Caws thought his band might break up. In its current state, these Brooklynites have been crafting hook-filled songs about pining after love for over ten years, a remarkable feat considering the major-label woes that plagued their early days. After ...

Last winter, folkie siren Kathleen Edwards took to her chilly Toronto home for recording parts of 'Asking For Flowers,' her third full-length album, due March 4. "The furnace is really loud there when it's running, and we had to turn off the heat to record," Edwards tells Spinner. "Then we had to stop the process to heat up the house." But there's ...