Brooklyn Vegan — Jonathan Richman at MHOW in 2010 (more by Andrew Frisicano) Jonathan Richman, who seems to come to NYC for a multiple night run at least once a year, has announced a 2012/2013 late fall/winter tour which brings him to NYC... more info

Guardian Music — David Best, also of Fujiya & Miyagi, has had enough of alpha males, and suggests we can learn a lot from the likes of Jonathan Richman and Frank Spencer2012 has been the year of the Olympics and for men, therefore, it's been impossible to escape the ... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Melody Fisher Chicago indie rock duo Nervous Cloud are veterans odf the Windy City music scene. Travis Lee Wiggins (vocals, guitar) & Sarah Sterling (drums, vocals) have played in various bands before joining forces in 2010. Their self-tit... more info

Guardian Music — Indie pop might have been melodic, but it was also a real rebellion – against macho rock and the celebrity machine. Now one of its most talented exponents has a new albumIt was easy to mock, and that was one reason we liked it: it was a kind of mus... more info

Consequence of Sound — Contains covers of Nick Cave, Wire, Jonathan Richman, and... ABBA. more info

Impose Magazine — When Sacramento seminal noise punkers Mayyors broke up, drummer Julian Elorduy picked up a guitar to write woe-be-gone songs that would never have fit into a Mayyors set. He formed Fine Steps with the help of a few Ganglians and other players from th... more info

Guardian Music — (Broken Horse)Seattle-born oddball Charles Douglas took what was, in hindsight, a ludicrously hopeful/deluded lunge at rock stardom in the mid-1990s, bashing out reams of pie-eyed eight-track pop in his parents' Pennsylvania basement in the firm beli... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Boston Review interviews author Junot Diaz. All Shook Down interviews seminal singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman. In the last "interview" you granted, the poem you wrote and recorded earlier this year for UK's Mojo, you said it was strange to be.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Jonathan Richman tonight in NYC * Robbie Fulks @ Barbes * Chicha Libre @ Barbes * Jesse Harris @ The Stone * John Roderick @ The Rock Shop * Grouplove, Reptar @ Webster Hall * Dave Matthews Band @ Jones... more info

kata rokkar... — With a kind of Jonathan Richman style charm and demeanor added to the backdrop of an experimental yet modern electro-dub beat, Exray's did a swell job at making sure the room was aware of their unique brand of off kilter pop music. Celebrating th... more info