I think a certain kind of person settles down to raise a family in the Northwest, and that breeds a certain kind of kid,” says Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold. “I definitely feel like a product of my environment in that way, and really can’t imagine dying anywhere else. I…

Dr. Dog has been compared to hipster faves like Pavement and Guided by Voices (which does no justice to the Dog’s genuinely adorable ’70s AM soul), but the late Rick Danko himself would’ve loved Philadelphia’s current indie darlings: lo-fi keyboards, bass and thick drums make a bed for sentimental, earnest…

“I think I’ll drink myself into a coma/And I’ll take every way out I can find/But morphine, codeine, whiskey they won’t alter/The way I feel now death is not around.” Those lines, from Spiritualized’s latest, Songs in A & E, pretty well sum up the two topics England’s most heralded…