Although Manitoba is over a thousand miles away from their home base in Toronto, indie-folk band The Wilderness of Manitoba radiates the muted serenity of a gentle snowfall on the Canadian landscape. Lead by vocalist Will Whitwham, the five-piece band's minimal, multi-instrumental arrangements produce cascading, dreamy songs where every tiny tinker... 
Bringing a bleak but reverent piece of "Steel Town" Canada, Redlight King filled the Yahoo! Music office with heavy-hearted rock, a tinge of hip-hop, and lots of rich storytelling during is recent visit. The lyrics of singer-songwriter Mark Kasperczyk (better known as Kaz) read like a detailed diary of his experiences... 
Amy Winehouse's final "performance" wasn't much of one. Two days before she was found dead, Winehouse walked out on stage at the iTunes Festival in London, danced around a little, resisted the microphone that was put in her face, and quickly left. It was, at the least, a better... 
Fresh off her first Coachella performance this year, U.K. songbird Eliza Doolittle stopped by the Yahoo! offices to regale us with her sweet and jazzy pipes. Born Eliza Sophie Caird, her stage name was taken from a character in the play Pygmalion, or better known as Audrey Hepburn's cockney character... 
The Horrors' metamorphosis from obnoxious noisemongers to moody, Mercury Prize-nominated melodists on their second album, Primary Colours, is one of the great transformations in rock 'n' roll history. The Horrors are about to release their hotly anticipated third album, Skying, but the British psych-goth band's frontman, Faris Badwan, clearly isn't content with... 
What do Sheryl Crow, Barry Manilow, and Foster The People lead singer Mark Foster have in common? They all started out writing commercial jingles--who would've guessed?L.A.-based trio Foster The People's contagious brand of light-hearted indie-pop has been getting a lot of buzz since their debut single "Pumped Up Kicks" dropped... 
Swarming the music headlines this week, political funnyman Stephen Colbert debuted a musical collaboration produced by the hardestworking man in music, Jack White. With the fanfare surrounding his new song "Charlene II (I'm Over You)," the sequel to "Charlene (I'm Right Behind You)," lurking as his black-suited backing band stood... 
Every year a new British baby band comes along that seems set to conquer American shores, become the biggest U.K. import since Coldplay, and singlehandedly save rock 'n' roll. Oftentimes this all turns out to be just NME-generated hype...with an NME-generated backlash already in the works before that band even has... 
Breakbot is a 30-year-old French producer and DJ (real name: Thibaut Berland) signed to hipster electronic music label Ed Banger Records (home to Justice, SebastiAn, Cassius, Uffie, Mr. Oizo, and others). He is tres cool and tres French, and his new club anthem with Ruckazoid, "Fantasy," makes us wants to dance... 
The vocal influence of the Cure's Robert Smith can be heard in so many younger bands nowadays (see: The Rapture, Bloc Party, Kenna, Black Kids, The Bravery), it's a wonder he hasn't tried to collect royalties. Instead, he's just joined some modern-day bands on their own recordings and practically upstaged... 
