Leigh Belz

After the Jan 12th earthquake that devastated Haiti, Little Joy's Binky Shapiro started organizing an artist-driven charity project to raise money for the organization Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ). Her project, Crafts for a Cause,...

Thursday morning at SXSW, I was determined to mix things up a little. After watching a solid set from Miles Korosky (formerly of the band Beulah), my friend Jeff suggested a band called Terror Pigeon...

The annual South by Southwest music festival in Austin is often called "spring break for the music industry" because of the non-stop festivities and relentless socialization. But for a music writer looking to scout...

Want to be WAY ahead of the curve? Check out the twenty bands social music site PureVolume.com has picked as the best unsigned acts of last year. (Like Peoria, AZ band Hello Hollywood, pictured left.)Are the chosen ones worthy? You...

Last night, there was a mini Teen Vogue field trip downtown to Le Poisson Rouge after work. Danielle (of the PATA blog), Andrew (of StyleBlogger), and I went down to the west village to catch...

The brainchild of Oregonian musicians Jason Davis and Daniel Walker, Archeology crafts harmonic, lush pop with a sharp lyrical edge. Davis and Walker reportedly began the group as a side project just over a year ago,...

Friday night, The National played the second of their two (secret) shows at The Bell House in Brooklyn. Both nights, the band debuted songs from upcoming album, High Violet. (Out May 11th.)I spent the past...

She & Him have a very charming habit of finishing each other's sentences. I spoke to Zooey Deschanel (She) and Matt Ward (Him) late one Friday night while they were holed up in a Los...

Last night, Brooklyn heroes The National performed "Terrible Love," the first track off of their upcoming album, High Violet, on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon:What do you think of the new song?The band plays The...

Rolling Stone called Sindri Már Sigfússon, lead singer/instrumentalist of indie folk band Seabear, "the Icelandic Beck." A pretty apt comparison. Seabear has a kind of lush, Sea Change vibe. (If Sea Change was crafted by...

During the summer of 2007, rock duo The White Stripes set off on a Canadian tour. Their goal? Perform in every single province and territory. Director Emmett Malloy captured this feat in his documentary The...

It's Monday and, at least in New York City, it's finally starting to feel like Spring. This seems like kind of the perfect video to post on a day like this:For more PS22 Choral performances, check...

Treadmill-choreography-loving band OK Go has just released a new video for their new single "This Too Shall Pass." (From their latest album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky.) According to inside sources, the giant...

Kate Nash, fresh from taping an interview at MTV studios, with our March issue.New York is, once again, a snow globe today. (Not exactly the "snowpocalypse" that the news predicted, but pretty messy to...

Mog.com is all about music in a very High Fidelity way. They stream songs, offer downloads, craft playlists-- and also discuss, critique, and argue about music with the passion of a true fan.This week, as a...

Canadian singer-songwriter Meaghan Smith's cover of The Pixies' "Here Comes Your Man" was a highlight of the (500) Days of Summer soundtrack.Meaghan just released a video for the track, as part of the launch of...

In January, Utah glam rock band Neon Trees came through New York for a gig at the Mercury Lounge. MusicBlogger asked the band to show us everything that happened behind the scenes of the show.Here...

Today on video site Vevo.com, Rihanna debuted the video for her third single off of Rated R, "Rude Boy." In a recent interview, the singer told Carson Daly that the pop-art-inspired video was directed by Melina...

TargetCancer is a non-profit organization devoted to funding cancer research. (Specifically rare and lesser-known types of the disease.) The group's newest project is The Right Track: Tunes to TargetCancer, a download series that features new...

Thirty-five percent of students admit to using a cell phone to cheat in class. Teen Vogue reports. During a major geometry test last year, Kaytie, sixteen, was this close to remembering how to solve the next question....

At age twelve, Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies experienced a radical transformation. The West Sussex schoolgirls formed Smoke Fairies--a folk duo inspired by the Crosby, Stills & Nash and Grateful Dead records they'd pilfered from...

On Monday, we posted a poll on Facebook asking which Grammy performance readers liked the best. Here are the results::Lady Gaga and Elton John ruled the night with 29% of the vote. Following closely behind was...

The past few months have been interesting in terms of public (messy) band breakups. First, in November 2009 Aerosmith's Joe Perry took to Twitter to announce that band would be continuing on without founding singer Steven...

Kate Nash and Bernard Butler in the studio Photographer: Clare NashSpitfire Brit balladeer Kate Nash--the MusicBlogger column subject back in March 2008--is back in the studio and working on the follow-up to her debut, Made of...