Performing for just the third time ever without her sister, Sara, Tegan Quin shared the stage last night at New York's Housing Works Bookstore Café with author Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors).

Andrew Bird is a modern-day renaissance man. Beyond his multi-instrumental prowess and penchant for quirky, orchestrated chamber pop, Bird has come to define the sort of bookish, detached cool that can't be bought, styled, or practiced in front of the mirror.

Summer stragglers returned from Monday's sun-scorched celebrations for Underoath's Lost in the Sound of Separation CD release party at the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza.

At Manhattan’s intimate Mercury Lounge Saturday night, the crowd was worried. Word had gotten out that the night’s headlining act, Austin, TX's, Windsor for the Derby, were running late due to a holdup at the Canadian border and might not be able to make it to New York in time for the show.

They may not be the youngest punk rockers around these days, but Hot Water Music still serve up a killer dose of youthful adrenaline… which you might expect from a band that has died and been resurrected more times than Bob Saget's career.

The combination of politics and music in '08 certainly has a notable pulling power; it seems nearly every young, Democratic-leaning person in the Twin Cities came out to the Turf Club last night to support Barack Obama on the eve of the Republican National Convention, which happens here next week.

Bathed in violet light, the stage of Seattle's WAMU Theater was set last night for an evening of prodigious musicianship from fabled Britpop stalwarts Oasis, who began the North American leg of their world tour to a sold-out audience.

With the astounding score of 398,000, Eric Miller blew away his rivals on stage last night in Boston, winning the booty in the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith ROCKS the Hard Rock competition. His prize?

Searching for an exciting end to the opening day of Outside Lands, concertgoers wiped bay-fog off their shoulders as they cozied in between the blood-red curtained walls of San Francisco's Independent Friday night for SPIN and Dell's afterparty, featuring sets from the Matches and the Felice Brothers.

Last night at Detroit's Pike Room, as the crowd amassed near the bar in anticipation of the night-capping set from Montreal's Handsome Furs, the husband/wife duo emerged for a couple pre-show cocktails and to greet their fans.