There’s something about failed sci-fi musicals that seemingly inspires an artist’s best work. Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo is perhaps the most famous example of this phenomenon, scrapping an entire space ...

Electric vehicles, and many hybrids, are fundamentally quiet at low speeds. So to be sure they’re heard in crosswalks and on city streets, they need to make sounds. Yes, that means adding “fake” ...

“I want it all” Michelle Zauner wistfully and repeatedly cries on this album’s opening track ‘Diving Woman’. It’s a lyric that describes the tone of this whole second album, as her ambitious spirit ...

With a meandering, six-minute-plus sci-fi-sounding opening track, it was clear that Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner was out to make music that was beyond the three-minute-pop found on her solo ...

Overview:  Smart alarm clocks in 2025 focus on calm waking, not loud noise. Light and soft sound now guide the body out of ...

“I’ve been listening to a recording of a show I did in Norway,” says Vashti Bunyan. “And I’m just amazed at how soft it is. When I’m listening back I think, my goodness, it sounds like a child up ...

Velvet Crush's new Soft Sounds probably incorporates too much feedback to qualify as lite rock, but the title should be taken seriously. For their group's fifth proper album, venerable power-pop ...

When Japanese Breakfast first emerged into the world, it was to deal with the loss of Michelle Zauner’s mother. The solo project from Little Big League singer Zauner mourned with impeccable pop style ...

Michelle Zauner, who writes music under the moniker Japanese Breakfast, was born in Seoul, Korea, but grew up right here in Eugene. “I feel like I got my start there,” Zauner tells Eugene Weekly over ...