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Torche mainman Steve Brooks channels his urge to make what he calls "thunder pop," a faux genre carved from all of Black Sabbath's heaviness but none of its darkness. by Brad Sanders TorcheHarmonicraftVolcom Entertainment For as long as he's been openly gay, Torche mainman Steve Brooks has been held up by lazy music journalists as a kind of standard for what it means to be homosexual in ...

Her latest puppet film, "Trixie and the Tree Trunks Part 2," is currently in production.

The Unicorns' "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?" Pull up the cover art for this week's album, and take a good look. "The Unicorns" it proclaims in big, bubbly, pink letters floating on a cloud. A cheery cartoon rainbow spills out over the ocean, pierced by a lightning bolt.

Listening to The Magnetic Fields is something like eating very sour candy; the balance between sweet pop-music mastery and lyrics that are by turns arch, cruel or downright jokey is a delicate one.

Canada indie-pop band Islands plays Queen Bee's in North Park Thursday night. Thursday 15 I believe it was Henry Miller who wrote in his controversial best-seller Tropic of Canada that “No man is an island.”

"Now it ain't no harm if I feel like singing the blues/I've done said my prayers and I'm done paying my dues. …" These are the opening lines on Charlie Musselwhite 's latest album, "Delta Hardware," released in 2006.…

The demise of popular indie band The Unicorns at the beginning of the aughts left many fans feeling a void. Prolific pioneers of lo-fi indie pop, frontman Nick Thorburn would of course not be gone for long. In 2006, the music world was rocked by the critically acclaimed debut album by Islands, "Return To The Sea", an experimental, long-form record that would go on to inspire countless musicians ...

The demise of popular indie band The Unicorns at the beginning of the aughts left many fans feeling a void. Prolific pioneers of lo-fi indie pop, frontman Nick Thorburn would of course not be gone for long. In 2006, the music world was rocked by the critically acclaimed debut album by Islands, "Return To The Sea", an experimental, long-form record that would go on to inspire countless musicians ...

Islands frontman Nick Thorburn on the band's new break-up album and how he's feeling increasingly alienated from modern music.

A selected guide to pop, rock, hip-hop, dance, electronica, country, folk, traditional vocal and other music performances in New York and the area.

Born from the ashes of the beloved lo-fi rock group The Unicorns, Montreal's Islands brings its soulful, personal art-rock sound to WXPN's live midday concert series.