Mikael Wood

Given the recent success of Mumford & Sons, the Felice Brothers might be in for a big-league boost this year--or at least, they would be if they didn't diverge from old-timey orthodoxy on the surprisingly out-there Celebration, Florida, due out from Fat Possum in May. First Bright Eyes go weird,...

New York-based Gorbel used to play with post-Dashboard emo also-rans the Honorary Title; now he's touring in support of a recent solo disc he recorded in L.A. with Blake Sennett of Rilo Kiley. The vibe? Tom Petty meets Bright Eyes. Tue., Feb. 15, 8 p.m., 2011...

This diverting five-song EP inaugurates ex-Libertine Pete Doherty's new contract with the only American label brave enough to sign a world-renowned junkie hell-bent on seeing how far the English judicial system can be pushed before it throws him in the clink. (Recently, Doherty was fined 770 pounds and ordered not...

In eyelinered Chicago goth-pop wanna-bes Kill Hannah's sort-of hit "Kennedy," singer Mat Devine brags that he wants to be a Kennedy and, after living fast and breaking hearts and kissing the girls of centerfolds on the tongue, die young. We don't really believe Devine, because two songs later on that...

Whatever your politics, you have to admit that the title of Impeach My Bush, the third album by Berlin-based raunch-rap mistress Peaches, is a joke whose time has come. (Titles might be Peaches' true talent — see also 2003's Fatherfucker.) Whether or not Impeach offers more than exemplary wordplay comes...