Alt-J can perform live some of the articulate and calculated compositions from recorded sessions, without feeling pretentious or planned.

With about three months to go until UMS 2013, event organizers have tipped us off to another group of acts added to the lineup.

When Mac DeMarco tells the Onion’s A/V Club that he and his band just learned Weezer’s “Sweater Song” on the drive down, you have to smile a little.

FoCoMX 2013 celebrated the Northern Colorado music scene on Saturday and Sunday. The fifth annual Fort Collins music festival includes more than 200 artists and about 20 venues.

We’ve got a dance remix of a Snake Rattle Rattle Snake’s “Warning” and funky folk-rock track “Snakeskin” from Brave Song Circle.

If you like your summer jams dripping with lysergic acid, the new MGMT song, “Alien Days,” is for you.

Members of the local rock community gathered in Denver to shoot a video that will announce more than 300 bands playing UMS 2013.

Three generations and more than five decades — that’s how much music history the bill of Bob Dylan, Wilco and My Morning Jacket spans.

Our 4/20 playlist includes stoner classics like Bob Marley and Cypress Hill, along with some deeper cuts like Pavement, the Strokes and more.

Family of the Year makes music that is as earnest as it is infectious. Regardless of its more pop-oriented past, the indie folk band is among the nu-wave of happy folksters (the Lumineers, Mumford, et al.) that people either love or hate.