Créatures (Rhyme and Reason). Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Critters. Review by Bob Pomeroy.

Tampa’s Big Guava Festival puts itself on the sun & sounds map, and wins the heart of Jen Cray.

Central Florida has got itself a proper music festival in the way of the BIG GUAVA. Save your gas money, cause with a lineup this good there’s no reason to drive 500 miles north to get your festival fix.

Planta (SQE Music). Review by Jen Cray.

Master of My Make Believe (Downtown Records/Atlantic Records). Review by Jen Cray.

Rise Again (M.O.D. Technologies). Review by James Mann.

Get your crazy font on, with Andy Miller’s collection of wall-ready poster art inspired by indie rock music.

Zol! (Secretly Canadian). Review by Carl F Gauze.

With over 40 albums and an unassailable legacy as the originator of one of Africa’s most popular and enduring sounds, the job of curating Fela Kuti’s catalog for the 21st century is a difficult and enviable task. Ink 19 dives into the Knitting Factory’s Chop n’ Quench, Fela’s first nine albums re-released, and gives a heads up on the Na Poi set of albums due to drop on May 11.

With over 40 albums and an unassailable legacy as the originator of one of Africa's most popular and enduring sounds, the job of curating Fela Kuti's catalog for the 21st century is a difficult and enviable task. Ink 19 dives into the Knitting Factory's Chop n' Quench, Fela's first nine albums re-released, and gives a heads up on the Na Poi set of albums due to drop on May 11.

Modest Mouse are playing bigger and bigger gigs these days. Their recent sold out show at Orlando’s House of Blues is an example. S D Green questions their modesty in light of all this popularity and new personnel.

Sucks Blood (CastleFace). Review by Jen Cray.

Too often the latest indie rock buzz band are nothing but big fat disappointments. After witnessing their live show, Jen Cray can assure you that Tv On The Radio are not just the product of inflated hype.

Panic in Babylon (Narnack). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs will be gracing Orlando with their presence this October, but first here’s a sneak peek into one third of the band’s mind. Guitarist Nick Zinner talks with Jen Cray about what it’s like to see the crowd from the band’s perspective, and how it feels to exist behind a captivating frontwoman like Karen O.

Music magazines are one of Matthew Moyer’s ten favorite sublime pleasures in life (write in for a list of the other nine). But, at present, his magazine-buying situation had grown pretty grim–until Copper Press saved him from the horror of Rolling Stone. Turn it up, bring the noise.

Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (Touch and Go). Review by Melody Caraballo.