INTERVIEW BY HANNAH ROBERTS Kelly Evans is the life force, a mommy-sister, the hippie who touts aural energy and raw cadence. She´s deep, a communicator. Chris Walker is no-nonsense -- on m  

I love standing corrected. Especially when someone steps into a staunch liberal's self-made reality -- one carefully padded with AM radio, a good racially/sexually oriented mix of friends and lot  

The High and Low need some attention. Their fashionably wallflower-ish demeanor and their circle of recognizable musical friends are no doubt intriguing. But if you want to get the whole picture,   

Kelly Thomas would be pissed at me if I started rambling on about feminism and her victories over the stereotypical "woman's place" in music. Well, OK, not pissed exactly. She'd probably roll   

I was pushing a cart through Kroger when I saw an ear, a ponytail, the collar of a green coat. All it took was a glimpse of someone who looked like Kim, and I was off on a silent tangent. Simmeri  

The basement of any house, from pre-fab to pre-Civil War, is an anomaly, incongruous, not in shape, but in ambience to the rest of the structure. You can hear the comfortable din of chatter; you   

I don't care for not-so-vintage tees or blue-black hair. And I barf in my mouth a little when I see underage hipsters (rather than, let's say wizened ex-Marines) sporting tattoos of hearts afire  

The details are a little sketchy, but what's clear is that Brandon Migliorisi and Ben Franks were only 13 when they flipped open the dictionary to pick a name for their new band. Now, what are t  

The buzzwords associated with a life of music could be coded and molded into one hell of a crossword puzzle -- tour, recording, mixer, Marshall, pick-guard, Waffle House, label, merch, etc. Unfort  

According to drummer Brian Penick, Rescue Effort is a four-man call to arms, a mission to overhaul the music world in terms of expectations and quality. "Johnny Cash, maybe?" Penick muses when