Cari Rae and Jordy Asher’s music outfit, Blonds, gets compared to groups like Tennis and Cults. Why? Because they are a boy and a girl making pop music. These are not bad comparisons by any means, but Rae and Asher’s project is not a rip-off of the pioneers of cutesy indie pop. In fact, it’s not cutesy indie pop at all. Music writers stamped the twosome with similarities after the Floridians self-released their debut EP, Dark Roots, last November. The…

In 1997, after phenomenal freshman and sophomore albums, Oasis released Be Here Now. Even though many critics liked the album, some criticized the overproduced sound and bloated length. Oasis had tried to go from early Beatles to White Album Beatles overnight and while the album sold well it was still considered a disappointment. It sort of spiraled downhill from there. “Bonehead” Arthurs and Paul McGuigan left the band, the brothers Gallagher continued to fight tooth and nail against each other…

Though this is her third album, Jesca Hoop is still a relative unknown to many music listeners. What is known, and should who aren’t familiar should know, is that Hoop has hobnobbed with some of the biggest names in the biz. She’s cut her teeth by working with the iconic Tom Waits (for whose kids she was the nanny for), Peter Gabriel (who sang backup for) and Guy Garvey of Elbow, the latter which led to her moving to Manchester.…

Milo Greene is not a real person. He is a fictitious manager/booking agent that three struggling musicians and college classmates created to help effectively promote their individual endeavors. Those three friends were Andrew Heringer, Robbie Arnett and Marlana Sheetz, and years later, when the three-piece finally decided to write music together, they found it appropriate to pay tribute to the man (albeit fake) who helped them through their college years. And thus, Milo Greene (the band) was born. The threesome…