Explosions in the Sky (music group)

Nine Inch Nails released a new single, "Came Back Haunted," late Wednesday evening, ending a hiatus that began after the influential industrial-rock group's Wave Goodbye Tour in 2009. The song, which you can hear below, is the first sampling from a...

PARK CITY, Utah — “It’s been awhile,” director David Gordon Green said as we shook hands on Sunday. Indeed it had. It was, in fact, 10 years almost to the day since I’d interviewed Green at the Sundance Film Festival, and...

There's a moment from Kyle Durfey's adolescence that has always stayed with him. He was sitting next to his dad in their Crofton home, watching the sci-fi movie "Contact." In the film, Jodie Foster's character sees her long-deceased father walk up to her...

Avicii, Kid Cudi and the Shins headlined the Sweetlife Music Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday. Reporter Vivienne Machi reviews the event. If the Sweetlife Festival were an actual sweet, I’d vote for a lemon bar: smooth, luscious,...

Finally, a no-brainer. Kicking of Merriweather Post Pavilion's season, the Sweetlife Food and Music Festival boasts an eclectic, solid lineup of established acts and rising talents. In chronological order, here are the five acts I suggest finding time for...

When you cover entertainment, the music never stops. The albums come in by mail every day but Sunday and pile up in the inbox. The stack of albums grows exponentially, and despite good intentions, certain albums get pushed aside, and by the time you've...

The Sweetlife Food and Music Festival's second stage, a.k.a. The Treehouse, will feature Delta Spirit, Twin Shadow, Zola Jesus, the Knocks, RAC, U.S. Royalty, Yuna, Haim, LP, Cut Copy's Ben Browning and Bluebrain, it was announced Wednesday afternoon....

Avicii, Kid Cudi and the Shins will headline the Sweetlife Music Festival this year, it was announced Wednesday morning. Scheduled for April 28, the one-day festival is in its third year and its second at Merriweather Post Pavilion. The Strokes and...

Delta Spirit, Delta Spirit Release date: March 13, 2012 **1/2 (Out of four) On its third full-length album, California indie rock band Delta Spirit sounds ... different. The group's old Americana twang has been shed in favor of a heavy dose of ambient...

The walls of West Jessamine High School nearly came tumbling down as six local bands engaged in the inaugural Battle of the Bands on Friday night in a bid for glory, a $100 grand prize — and a bag of M&M chocolates. “Delicious,” said...

Dagwood Paradise (self-released)/Cheshire Now that the requisite 20 years has passed, the '90s are ripe for the artistic pillaging. Dagwood's brand of punk fits nicely into the '90s niche carved by NOFX, Lagwagon, Face to Face, and Me First & the Gimme...

Lollapalooza 2011 is a wrap with record daily attendance (90,000), adding up to the most populated festival in North America (270,000) over the three-day weekend. Here’s an hour-by-hour account of Sunday’s action, once again from yours truly...