The Hourly Radio embrace a preoccupation with the past, going so far as to name their debut album History Will Never Hold Me. Furthering the group's reputation as History-buffs, a new remix of "Closer" features the booming voice of President Harry

The U.K. production duo Soulsavers, a.k.a. Rich Machin and Ian Glover, have found a messiah-like figure in vocalist Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age). Blessing the pair's new record, It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land, is Lanegan's coarse baritone, rattling tracks like a small-scale quake. On

Early in "Dakota," NYC's Steel Train acknowledge that "lightning strikes and buildings fall," but refuse to be dragged into a pit of whining, wallowing or melodrama. Instead, the band stares straight at suffering and counters cold horror with an audible confidence in perseverance. The churning distortion that gurgles and growls beneath

Set firmly in the Motor City, rootsy garage rockers Blanche live and play amidst a vast urban decay. The setting of the band's new video for "What This Town Needs," once home to Henry Ford's Model T Automobile Plant, provides a disturbingly picturesque representation of the rotting Americana about which they sing. From behind a camera lens,

For Redwalls frontman Logan Baren, the summer still simmers as he wistfully pleads for the days with his "darling." Expounding on love in the hottest season, "Summer Romance" isn't quite Danny and Sandy at Rydell High,

Imagine if Eleanor Friedberger and her brother Matthew of the Fiery Furnaces were robbed of their entire collection of electronic musical gadgets and gizmos. Stripped down, that leaves the style of conversational melody and adorable quirk Scout Niblett employs to begin her live rendition of "Let Thine Heart Be Warmed" -- which is found on