Is This It? examines the current state of rock music through a modern-day lens, highlighting the artists, perspectives and sounds that have kept the genre and its dedication to counter-culture alive.

Summer is over. Temperatures have dropped. The leaves have changed colors. And as the pumpkin spice lattes have returned, so, too, has the concept of “Sad Girl Autumn.” At least, that’s according to ...

A secret warmth blooms in the chill of the year. A morning of precociously early snow did not spoil this year’s harvest of fall colors. The yellowwood tree outside my window, true to its name, has ...

Fans of early-’80s soul and funk fondly remember the Nashville group Autumn, even though they never enjoyed the national stardom they seemed destined to achieve. Their collective sound was eclectic ...

Mya Byrne’s new song “Autumn Sun” was written as soon as the smoke cleared, literally. The California singer-songwriter was on the porch at home in Berkeley with her friends in the aftermath of the ...