If you needed new reasons to join us at Range Life down at SXSW, you're welcome. First and foremost is this engrossing and gently saxophoned(!) keyboard-centric track from twangy Baltimore dreamers…   Read Story »

South By Southwest is nearly upon us, and as you may have expected, we're in the mood to celebrate. We even got a new outfit for the occasion. Or really, got an occasion for the new outfit: After…   Read Story »

Baltimore duo Wye Oak turn a pretty trick on their touching The Knot standout "Sight, Flight," sending their pretty, dusky country-tinged track into a fit of fanning noise that swells to a breaking…   Read Story »

The Baltimore duo's dusky, pretty sophomore album The Knot (out 7/21) is now streaming at MergeRecords.com.   Read Story »

Andy Stack and singing waitress Jenn Wasner were responsible for one of our favorite sets at CMJ last year. The new songs they played got us psyched for the Baltimore duo's sophomore LP. Now six…   Read Story »

The crew here managed to fly through some 70+ sets of music last week, and boy is our abilty-to-wade-through-the-sadness-that's-passing-for-buzzed-up-indie-rock tired. There's a very scientific…   Read Story »

Joining the Tobacco triumph a few days earlier, Mercury Lounge hosted a couple more of my favorite sets this fest in the recently revitalized (and recently Mangum-ized) Music Tapes, and Baltimore…   Read Story »

Baltimore duo Wye Oak have given us the swirling, multi-layered "Warning" along with "I Don't Feel Young" -- in both unplugged and QYDJ forms. Here, we get a look and listen at another If Children…   Read Story »

The people of Austin are nice enough to welcome thousands (and thousands) of vagabond music fans into their city for a few days each year, so we decided to pay their stomping ground homage with a…   Read Story »

Miles from their beloved Baltimore, Wye Oak's Andy Stack and Jenn Waster gamely jumped into an air-conditioned Yaris outside a Merge Showcase and played us an intimate, stripped-down and strummed "I…   Read Story »