What exactly is DIY music? It’s as simple as it seems: DIY is all about making music yourself, marketing it yourself, and creating art and media for it yourself or through a small, independent label.

It could’ve been a punk-rock cliché. The Chicago DIY band Lifeguard “grows up,” discovers pop, and loses what made them thrilling to begin with — that dissonant, angular, emotional (but not emo per se ...

Welcome to AP&R, where we highlight rising artists who will soon become your new favorite. There was a unique sense of community when Blvck Hippie, a self-proclaimed sad-boy indie rock band, got on ...

Like most do-it-yourself endeavors, the first Punk Palouse Fest — sprouting up on Moscow's main drag Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25 — started with a spark of curiosity. Last summer, Moscow ...

The weekend-long bash will involve 40 local bands performing a combined 250 songs across four nights at MySpace, turning the ...

Welcome to Scene Report where we highlight significant, underground scenes and subcultures across the globe. When small-town bands aspire to make it big, they typically move to a larger city. For ...

A lot of weird music has emanated from the Valley: Sun City Girls, Meat Puppets, Treasure MammaL – even some Gin Blossoms deep cuts were a tad kooky. But few acts have proven as delightfully strange ...

mewithoutYou are sadly calling it quits after a consistently-great, ever-shapeshifting, 20+ year career, and their farewell tour wraps up in the band’s Philly hometown with shows at The Fillmore ...

PANAMA CITY — Summer fun is at its peak in Bay County as the music scene continues to grow with the return of an annual music festival at one of downtown’s most exciting venues. Panama City’s ...