For local music lovers, the news hit like a series of bullets to the shoulder. Within a matter of months, toward the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023, the owners of venerable punk bar Victory Lounge, ...

A backyard show at It’s A Kling Thing! in an undated photo. The house is up for sale for an asking price of $137,900, which the tenants are trying to pay themselves. Credit: It's A Kling Thing! Most ...

What exactly is DIY music? It’s as simple as it seems: DIY is all about making music yourself, marketing it yourself, and creating art and media for it yourself or through a small, independent label.

Business is booming at CD Baby, Bandcamp, Tunecore, Bandzoogle and a host of other service providers for DIY musicians. But from Chance The Rapper to Stormzy and beyond, we are also witnessing a new ...

In a region where live music pulses through the veins of its culture, all-ages venues have long been the heartbeat of youth expression and musical discovery. From punk rock shows in gritty DIY spaces ...