Nashville-based alternative pop band In Color has joined the Big Loud Rock roster. Under the leadership of CEO Seth England and Big Loud Rock President Joey Moi, the label represents acts including ...

Shoegaze is having a moment. At least it seems like it. A few years ago, a band that preferred washed-out, distorted guitars and soft-loud vocals would categorically be called indie rock or dream pop ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A rock and roll music festival highlighting and supporting local Black artists is coming to Portland in April, featuring everything from alt-rock to Afropunk to reggae and more. Black ...

Portland is a great city for loud rock-’n’-roll music right now, and Alien Boy is a major reason why. Loud, queer, sincere and blessed with a guitar tone that sounds like a wall of liquid gold, Alien ...

While metal, punk, hardcore, and rock have long been established as a "boy's club", there have always been women working hard to put out some great, non-phallic music. Right now, there are more ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — A traveling music festival celebrating punk, rock and metal by Black artists will be shredding its way into Portland this weekend. On April 6, the Black and Loud Festival will be at ...

It started the way these things usually don’t: with a welder staring down middle age, a mohawk still intact and the itch to start a punk band again. Rambo – bassist, Dallas lifer, veteran of Stick Pin ...

RANT to the school in my neighborhood that plays amplified rock music with a big beat during its various playground periods. Since when do elementary school children need something like this to “enjoy ...

A few years back, prodded by shhh-I-can’t-hear-it acoustic-based recordings of such songwriting-centric performers as Elliot Smith, Low, Cat Power, and Belle and Sebastian on up through Pernice ...

I live in the Audubon area and it is indeed loud and annoying. I love great music and great shows like anyone; yet, it seems preposterous the festival is allowed to point the speakers in the direction ...