Our newest contributor Saxon hit up the latest installment of SHORTS!!!!!! not too long ago, and found himself at that very common crossroads that so often seems to hit at the least opportune moment. Perhaps by following the path on one side, you come out a little embittered by the idea that anyone even bothers [...]

Okay, just in case you guys haven’t gotten enough back-to-school jams, here’s a second helping. Anything to ease the pain of the inevitable, you know? It’s probably described best in this moment from Season 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (why yes, I have been watching the whole show again, starting from the first episode. [...]

In the mind of Kyle Evans, a.k.a. Echo Bloom, great art is the result of careful process. And after a year spent on his new album, “Jamboree“, he’s got the goods to back up his ideas. Equal parts composer and music theorist, Kyle’s success with Rosemont Family Reunion (from which spun off the band Junior [...]

PWRFL Power just wants to be “a cupcake of the current music scene,” at least that’s what he told Zac Pennington of Parenthetical Girls in a recent interview.
AON sat down with the man behind the name, Kaz Nomura, when he tumbled through town to play at the Hosiery, along with other acts like Winston [...]

It’s been quite the busy year for These United States. This past spring they released their (wonderful) debut album, A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gate to the Garden of Eden, and then embarked upon a 30+ date U.S. tour.
When last we met up with Jesse and crew, it was earlier in [...]

Like a lot of people with caffeinated attention spans, I obsessively create themed Mix CD’s in my spare time as well as my non-spare time. This gives me the pleasurable authority of christening AON’s newest series, MIXOLOGY, an exploratory and anal-retentive glimpse at Themed Mix CD Tracklisting. The last themed CD I so crispily burned [...]