Katie Crutchfield takes Bandbox behind the sleeve and tells us about the inspiration for each of her five LPs’ artwork. The Waxahatchee singer clearly has “The Eye” for design…

Change is in the air for Heartless Bastards. Following last summer's fittingly titled “Revolution," Heartless Bastards founder/frontwoman Erika Wennerstrom has now readied their first album in six years, A Beautiful Life.

A quick glance at the lyric sheet to “We Are Chameleons,” the show-stopping finale from Widow’s Weeds, reveals the track to be as much a band mission statement as it is a criticism of modern wealth structures.

Backed by a pizza joint and armed with a name voted the second worst ever, in their early days Trampled by Turtles treated every podunk bar like the Ryman. Says Dave Simonett, “Every show was an orchestra hall for us...”

In this excerpt from Bandbox's 16-page Tycho zine, Erik Thompson discusses the calm before Weather's storm with Tycho mastermind Scott Hansen. "Everything just fit perfectly together," he says of his fifth LP.

Solitude and spareness define Julien Baker’s three solo albums, but her music isn’t all forlorn doom and gloom. The 25-year-old loves sharing the stage with the musicians who inspire her. Here are seven of Baker’s best collabs!

Nada Surf’s fourth album, 2005’s The Weight is a Gift, is the sound of self-actualization. Marked by singer Matthew Caws’s wistful lyrical insight, this coming-of-age record was a hard-won triumph for the New York power-pop trio.

Julien Baker is clearly not afraid to get dark. Throughout her brilliant catalog, she openly explores life’s painful, fragile moments that leave us broken, lost and looking for answers.

Hollywood has soundtracked joy, heartbreak, tragedy, laughter and every other spot on the emotional spectrum with Elliott Smith's songs. These four make a case for him as one of modern cinema’s top musical contributors.

Who knew Bruce was into 30 Rock? Eight years after Tracy Morgan popularized the pursuit of hitting for the award show cycle, The Boss went for the EGOT equivalent of a triple - the Tony - just three blocks from NBC HQ.

As much as Tom Petty's Into the Great Wide Open has its head stuck in the puffy clouds dotting that big ol’ sky, the songs on his 1991 smash are often grounded in its fields of green.

Once, twice and, eventually, a third time, that’s what Peter Hook did to fill a New Order-sized gap in his heart. As the bassist once sang with Revenge, “I love a man who stands his ground…”