I started listening to Architecture in Helsinki recently (which Kerry Miller recently and brilliantly reviewed for our site), and they’re one of the most innovative bands I’ve heard in a while. I had ...

Nostalgia sells. Just ask the countless musicians tapping into the warm familiarity of early-’00s pop-punk. Berkeley, California’s Mom Jeans, known as one of the more prominent bands carrying on emo’s ...

The lights go out and UniverSoul Circus plunges into darkness. When they come back on, four clowns are standing around the stage under the big top, and the kids in the audience are screaming with joy.

When Stephen Sondheim wrote what became his most popular song, “Send in the Clowns,” for the 1973 musical “A Little Night Music,” he didn’t have a circus in mind. The “clowns” he was referring to were ...

Jamie Coventry and Natasha Kaluza get an auditorium of elementary school students on their feet and active as the begin their ...