There's a dearth of striking new voices in music right now; everyone emerging from obscurity seems to be tied too closely to a given scene or genre to stand apart from hundreds of wannabes. But listen ...

, or confounding all musical expectations with the varied pretzel twists and turns of his career — like his 1997 hillbilly trip-hop album Alone — Greg Garing has poured pretty much every bit of his ...

A lot of people over the past year (including us) have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to pinpoint the single event that turned around the city’s fortunes. Was it Jack White moving to town?