The veteran folk-rock freakout trio Akron/Family are about to release Sub Verses, their seventh full-length, and we've already posted their songs "No-Room" and "Until The Morning," two tracks that…   Read Story »

In the video for Akron/Family's "Until The Morning," member Miles Seaton functions as a bit of a storyteller. The positioning of scenes of him sitting in a room, singing to no one, with ones of…   Read Story »

Psych-rock astral travelers Akron/Family have a new album called Sub Verses coming out in a couple of months, and we've already posted their monolithic riff-blast "No-Room." But the newest track…   Read Story »

Ecstatic hippie brain-melters have been cranking out brain-expanding jams for long enough that they used to be tagged "freak-folk," though their raga-meltdown style rocks way harder than anything…   Read Story »

In a couple of months, Akron/Family percussionist Dana Janssen, recording under the name Dana Buoy, will release his solo debut Summer Bodies. Below, download a track from that album: the pulsating,…   Read Story »

Akron/Family might have just made the wrong enemy. The psych-folk band recently started selling a T-shirt on its website that shamelessly uses an extremely recognizable image: The skull logo of Man…   Read Story »

Playful Portland/New York experimental folk-rock trio Akron/Family's new album ST II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT was recorded in an abandoned train station in Detroit with the help of…   Read Story »

Akron/Family's tighter three-piece configuration debuted with last year's Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free. These demos, which the band posted to their Bandcamp page, are the first new things we've heard…   Read Story »

Our second year at Kutsher's was rainier than the first, but that didn't matter so much to us or, seemingly, the other attendees: If anything, this year felt more celebratory (and debauched) than…   Read Story »

At Seattle's biggest music festival, rain is not unexpected; still, the downpours at Bumbershoot '09 were scary even for this neck of the Pacific Northwest. No bands got electrocuted, but the sound…   Read Story »