Emerging artist: The Head and the Heart earn their biggest hit with 'All We Ever Knew'

With bands like Green Day, Blink-182, Beck, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, this week's Rock Airplay chart on Billboard looks like it might have been pulled from 1997. One of the few brand-new acts to find itself among those big names is the Head and the Heart, a Seattle-based six-piece indie outfit...

Twin Fin's 'Whisky, Wine, and Venom Love' is retro swing for a new generation

Twin Fin consists of Dana Hartman on vox and guitar, Cole G Benjamin on vox and saxophone, Paul Wickerson on guitar, Eric Roelofsen playing the upright bass, and Brad "Lavard" Ondrovcik on drums. They are an energetic group from Ontario, Canada that plays everything from swing to rockabilly, blues...

Interview: Meet quick-rising, quick-witted R&B duo Lawrence

For Lawrence, music is a family affair. New York-based duo Clyde and Gracie Lawrence are influenced by both classic soul and modern pop, with their official biography citing a wide range of inspirations including The Beatles, Ben Folds, Amy Winehouse, and Beyonce. It's their goal to mix as many of...

Introducing the Romanian band Crowd Control

What's that buzz coming from Eastern Europe? Looks like it's the Romanian underground bubbling under extreme creative heat! It's the sound of this Crowd Control band taking off from a solid local reputation, heading for an international recognition, and they are taking along with them about 20 more...

The top 10 best Elle King songs

Tanner Elle Schneider, aka Elle King, was born on July 3, 1989 in Los Angeles, California to comedian Rob Schneider and model London King. Not long after her birth her parents divorced and she was raised by her mother and 2nd husband Justin Tesa. By the age of 9-years-old she knew that she wanted to...

Performer profile: Dave Hause

Singer/songwriter Dave Hause (pronounced like "haws", not "house") is a man of many bands. After cutting his teeth in the Philadelphia hardcore scene with Paint It Black and The Curse, Hause went on to form well-known punk rock group The Loved Ones. But he didn't stop there. In 2009, he went solo...

Performer profile: Teenage Bottlerocket

Laramie, Wyoming isn't exactly a hotbed of punk rock music, but don't try telling that to hometown heroes Teenage Bottlerocket. Started by brothers Ray and Brandon Carlisle in 2000, TBR have never let their humble beginnings hold them back from taking the punk world by storm. Origins Things started...

The top 10 best Tennessee Ernie Ford songs

Ernest Jennings Ford was born on Feb 13, 1919 in Bristol, Tennessee. He had a fairly typical childhood and sang in the local church choir. As he grew up he knew that his voice would be an important part of his future. So, after he enrolled at the Virginia Intermount College, a women's college but...

Ernest Tubb, or the Texas Troubadour, was the face of the honky-tonk movement

Ernest Tubb, The Texas Troubadour, is a legend in the annals of country music for the dozens of hit singles he recorded, his arduous touring schedule and the support he gave to up-and-coming artists, including Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash. Tubb is credited with creating and defining an...

The Carter Family pave the way as 'The First Family of Country Music'

On a sweltering August day in 1927, Alvin “A.P.” Carter, his wife Sara and Sara’s cousin Maybelle stepped up to a microphone in the Bristol, Tennessee recording studio of Victor Talking Machine Company. The event was an audition. Years later, Johnny Cash would say that it was, “The single most...