Nicole Smith

Who's Aaron Carter, you ask? What — you have more important things to do than check what's trending on Twitter? It's been a very long time since this little blond boner of a Backstreet brother (his big bro is Nick Carter of BSB) burst on the scene with bubbly pop...

Mod Sun — Dylan Smith to his mom — is happy. We're talking the kind of abnormally smiley and positive guy-you-want-to-punch-in-the-head-on-a-bad-day kinda happy. But on an average day, there's no doubt the dude's high energy and organic optimism can be downright infectious. Which is precisely why the 25-year-old stoner MC began making music he describes...

There comes a time in every music snob's life when they realize pre-judging a band based on the city where it resides and what musical genre it fits into is just as stupid as it sounds. In the case of L.A.-based duo In the Valley Below, a new musical project...

Nobody ever said being a local band was easy. If they have, they're full of shit. Though Peoria-bred roots-rock quartet The Cold Desert is fairly new to the game, its outlook on being a local band is realistic, knowing firsthand that the Phoenix music scene is hard to tap into...

Australian pop-rockers, Atlas Genius, may be in over their hot little Aussie heads. Fairly new to the American-music scene, it hasn't taken long for their talents to reach the right ears and create a whole lot of buzz in the alt/indie-sphere. With their debut album, When It Was Now, on...