Special Noise Pop 2006 edition Noise Pop '06 is already proving to be memorable. Tuesday night's Feist show was among the best shows we've ever seen, despite the relentless sound problems at Bimbo's, and last night we went backstage to witness a saucy embrace by Britt Daniel and John Vanderslice. Luckily our new favorite photographer Julie Schuchard was there to document the love; look for her photos in our show reviews! See another hot indie......

Win it before you can buy it! We've got a copy of The Long Winters' excellent new Ultimatum EP that comes out October 11th. You can download the title track here and be sure to catch them opening for The Fiery Furnaces at Cafe Du Nord on Saturday. (Contest ends Weds. 10/5.) Tonight at the Rickshaw Stop Casiotone for the Painfully Alone celebrates a CD-single release, and at 12 Galaxies there's a Quintron and......

Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley is a sentimental and beautifully crafted portrait of the young man as an artist. Jeff Buckley was a singer-songwriter who started out singing in cafes in New York and recorded and released a single full-length album for Sony Grace which gained him a certain level of appreciation, mainly with other artists and overseas. Buckley never got the homeland recognition many feel he deserved until after he died by drowning, at......