Four years after recording her very first single (“Known Better”), Australia’s Meg Mac is gearing up for Friday’s U.S. release of her debut album, the soulful and emotive Low Blows. Twenty-seven-year-old singer-songwriter Megan McInerney says the experience of recording 10 new tracks was certainly different than what she’s done in the past.…

There could be something in the water of Sweden that leads to strong familial harmonies of sibling bands like First Aid Kit, The Hives and reaching farther back to Ace of Base. But Sunniva and Greta Bondesson of sister trio Baskery have more practical reasoning. “I’m surprised there are…

Photos: Alessio Neri Alex Hwang knows from experience that it’s difficult to change others’ perspectives, even those who are more culturally exposed music fans and industry professionals. Speaking about their band indie rock band, Run River North, the two are used to concertgoers’ first reaction. Rooney, Run River North…

Many lovers of music will forever remember where they were when Prince died. It’s a moment etched into the collective consciousness for those to whom his music mattered; just like Elvis, or Ritchie Valens or Kurt Cobain. The Revolution 8 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, July 11 and 12 The…

As a four-time Grammy winner and one of the most recognizable vocalists from the iconic CCM trio DC Talk, Kevin Max’s 16-year solo career has been full of surprises. With myriad art interests like original music, covers albums, collaborations with other artists, poetry and fiction, Max is clearly happiest when…

Photos: Alessio Neri NAPA — Nashville’s Judah and the Lion wasn’t the first band to blend other influences with Americana and folk. Mumford and Sons have made their careers out of it; Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and the Avett Brothers spawned dozens of copycats. Yet no band…

Anthony Catalano, singer-guitarist of blues-rock duo Little Hurricane, might have a proclivity to putting himself in dangerous situations. When he and drummer (and wife) Celeste Spina were shooting the photography to accompany their newest album, April’s Same Sun Same Moon, the two trekked to the stalagmite-like calcium deposit formations…

Where will the Treasure Island Music Festival be held when it returns in 2018? That’s at the top of the list of questions for fans of the boutique music festival held annually for the last decade on Treasure Island. Treasure Island producers announced this week they would be skipping…

  Not many bands would pass up multiple opportunities to open for Green Day, but Oakland’s SWMRS had a reason: nepotism. Because the pop-punk band’s drummer, Joey Armstrong, is the son of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, SWMRS had felt that others were judging them as getting a hand…

Los Angeles alt-rock and electropop trio DREAMERS swear they didn’t write a song called “Drugs” to glamorize substance abuse. The song isn’t even about any controlled substance. Still, it didn’t stop organizers of one festival to kick the band off its lineup, bassist Marc Nelson recalled in an email interview…