Is Eric Harvey over-qualified, under-qualified, or perfectly qualified to be in a rock band? It’s a fair question to pose to this New York-born guitarist and keyboardist. In 2003, a year before he ...

For more than 20 years, the band Spoon has been a staple of the indie rock circuit, blending rock, pop and punk. On their new album, "Hot Thoughts," Rolling Stone says the band "doubles down on beat ...

There is no chance the thought hasn’t crossed your mind at when you’re watching a cover band: What if the real stars went up on stage and started playing their songs alongside the little guys? But ...

America’s political polarization is at a dangerous high right now. It feels almost as if nobody can agree on anything, and it’s getting harder to see where common ground might lie. With Metacritic ...

Austin indie stalwarts Spoon are gearing up for a co-headlining tour with Beck and Cage the Elephant, and the band will be taking a slightly new lineup on the road this time around, as Rob Pope, Spoon ...

On Friday, indie-rock mainstays Spoon played a show at the State Theatre in Portland, Maine. Later, a Spoon cover band was having an aftershow to celebrate, which seems like a reasonably nice way to ...

Over the course of nine albums, the Austin, Texas, band Spoon has crafted pop-rock gems. Casual fans associate the group with danceable rhythms. Crazed geeks (i.e., me) have studied albums over and ...

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A scant three lines long, the lyrics to Spoon's "My Little Japanese Cigarette Case" couldn't be more minimal: "It's just my Japanese cigarette case / Bring a mirror to my face / Let all my memories be ...

Britt Daniel is sitting at a corner window of the Soho Grand café a few blocks from David Bowie's old apartment. It's January 9—the day between what would have been Bowie's 70th birthday and the first ...

Jason Narducy is an underground-rock lifer. The Evanston, Illinois, native was just a pre-teen when his band Verboten appeared in a Chicago punk-rock documentary called You Weren’t There. His band ...