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Son Volt is, from left, Dave Bryson, Chris Masterson, Jay Farrar, Andrew Duplantis and Mark Spencer.

One campaign likely to turn up on the Film and Integrated shortlists at the Cannes Lions this year is Dig Out Your Soul in the Streets , a short documentary created by BBH, New York on behalf of British rock band Oasis.

When it comes to turning a concert into a party, Jimmy Buffett ain't got nothing on No Doubt.

When guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist/lyricist Cedric Bixler-Zavala left At the Drive-In to form the Mars Volta, the duo burst out of the confines of post-punk into a kind of sprawling, Latin-infused prog that has been called everything from utterly brilliant to completely inscrutable.

When guitarist Taylor Hollingsworth went to Tepoztlan, Mexico, in early 2008, it was to hang out in the warm winter sun of the southern climes.

At the entry of Kimbaracumbara , a small restaurant club hidden between an art gallery and a Chinese restaurant in Little Havana, there's a painting of the Virgin Mary with a baby Jesus and three angels holding her afloat.

Coldplay postponed its show last week at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, so the outdoor concert season starts tonight with the first big summer show as Blues Traveler launches Albany's 20th Alive at Five season.

Hip-hop and R&B band Boys Night Out won second place at Morristown's Got Talent in February and this summer the Sussex Avenue School fifth-graders are headed for another shot at the spotlight.

When guitarist/singer/songwriter Jason Isbell put together his solo debut, Sirens of the Ditch , it was a prolonged process carried out over several years while he was a fulltime member of Drive-By Truckers , those purveyors of raucously rockin', whiskey-drinkin' alt-country music.

When wildly-hyped New York alternative rock group Yeah Yeah Yeahs promised that its third studio album would be different from the previous two, the band didn't disappoint.

Take "Three Girls" and subtract their "Buddy," and it still adds up to some mighty entertaining math.

Local man to play in D.C. Stephen Spillman / Amarillo Globe-News Jimmy Young is a fiddle player with the Texas Playboys .

When they're not busy churning out the pages of the magazine, SPIN's editors take a few minutes to offer an online-only angle for SPIN.com on hot topics of the moment.

When the discussion turns to bands that have done the most to influence contemporary American music and some of its signature genres, one of the groups that almost always comes up is Little Feat, which has been ...