It’s all about the ambiance as far as composer and producer John Mark Lapham is concerned. Despite an impressive array of far-flung collaborators—a list that includes guests vocalists Bill Callahan, ...

When multi-instrumentalist Régine Chassagne sang "In the Back Seat," a hushed, melancholy track off the Arcade Fire's first album, the crowd at Berkeley's Greek Theatre held their cell phones aloft. A ...

A haunting silence prevails at the 10-acre Glen Ellen retreat that Bernie and Kat Krause safeguarded over a half-century nearly a year after the Nuns fire destroyed their home and his life's work. Had ...

The obvious shouldn’t always be avoided; sometimes it’s even worth embracing. It’s the predictable that requires eschewing. And that’s how it was in America’s most identifiably Scandinavian city this ...