Once upon a time, a few people got together and made independent music what it is today. One of those people was Calvin Johnson. The voice behind Beat Happening, Johnson worked on the zine that the ...

My most listened-to song of 2023 was “It’s Friday, Da Bears Won,” a TikTok Thursday Night Football recap in the form of a Cure parody (“Friday, I’m in Love”) performed by a one-man band impersonating ...

Eric Haines is a one-man band. “The inspiration was probably Mary Poppins, but I didn’t realize it at the time," Haines said. "I was just trying to make it work.” When Haines makes his way down the ...

Rather than let a shrinking market for live music and shriveling pay end his career, Trace Christensen rolled with the changes. He’s now replaced bandmates with his own pre-recorded tracks, taking his ...

To survive in the jungle of jazz, a performer must be different. Not many years ago, a jazzman could accomplish this by simply playing faster or higher or crazier than the rest, or by having a “dirty” ...