Dylan Priest Whenever Drew Grow and the Pastors Wives get into the studio, something strange happens. "The last few times we've set out to record something, we get about four days of work done and then something goes wrong," Grow tells Spinner. "Then we end up having to leave and go finish it at our house." It happened just recently ...

Suspended Sunrise For most young bands, finding someone -- anyone -- to give their music a chance is often half the journey on the road to success. For the Chico, Calif.-based trio the Make, they thankfully didn't have to go too far to find some welcoming ears. But, to some outside observers, their benefactor, Green Bay Packers quarterback ...

bluebrainmusic.blogspot.com Listening to the D.C.-based duo Bluebrain, it should come as no surprise that the band is big on high-concept presentations for their art. The brothers behind the music, Ryan and Hays Holladay, combine their efforts to craft intricate pop woven with dense electronic backdrops, rippling drums and sharp contrasts of ...

Gino DePinto, AOL Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark didn't need to get back together, as they did in 2005. Their legacy was already secure after they helped usher in the sound of synth-pop in the early '80s and found incredible chart success with their 1985 single 'If You Leave,' which was written for the John Hughes film 'Pretty in Pink.' ...

Ellenote.com Rather than choose a meaningless band name like Archers of Loaf, Portland's the Slants decided to make it count. The New-Wave-inspired group is comprised solely of Asian-American members who decided to take back the slur that's been used to disparage their ethnicity. But when the Slants found out they weren't alone in wanting ...

One Little Indian "Can you hear me okay? Because I can't hear me." Ólöf Arnalds had a tough go of things at the Swan Dive Wednesday night in Austin. The diminutive folk singer from Iceland -- performing at one of the many events that the music blog Brooklyn Vegan has lined up for SXSW this year -- not only had to contend ...

Gino DePinto, AOL Blaqstarr -- known to his family as Charles Smith -- began his career as a teenager producing tracks for local rappers in Baltimore. Soon, his deep bass, street-savvy sound (his most well-known early track 'Tote It' replaced all the drum beats with the sounds of gunshots) was being picked up around the world, thanks to his ...