Jill Donenfeld

Karen Pagtama is a reality TV story producer by day and a miniature sweets jewelry maker by night (www.littlesweetthing.etsy.com) (if you are ever in need of cufflinks that look like macarons, you now know where to go). She is a Los Angeles native who loves sunshine and the...

Keeley, 19, and Erika, 20, were University of Oregon sophomores when they made their first batch of homemade peanut butter. As creative chefs (or, hungry college kids... you pick), the two began to add chocolate, cinnamon, coconut and other delicious ingredients to their peanut butter. They first sold at farmers...

Johanna Goodman is an artist and illustrator who lives in Nyack, New York.  Her work has been exhibited widely and her illustration work has appeared just about everywhere -- she has painted portraits of world leaders for the cover of Time, rock stars for Rolling Stone, CEOs for the Wall...

TV Girls, Trung Ngo and Brad Petering, are long time San Diego friends. Brad's sweet potato pancake has me curious. Their groovy beats make me wanna cruise on the PCH and stop off for a milkshake, go roller skating and jump in a pool. Ring in summer with them: spotify...

Jesse Marchant, aka JBM, has never had groupies cook for him, but he did indulge in some fan-made peanut butter cookies for a friend's band. Canadian born to a mother who makes a mean mac 'n cheese, he's never been on a proper date. Lots of room to impress here,...

The boys and girl of Ravens + Chimes answered NEW Band Bites questions this week while on tour in Europe. Thanks to a no McDonald's in the van policy and a vegan mother, they're getting their veggies. When they get back, their second album, Holiday Life, comes out....

Ian Williams is the founder of Battles. He also played in the bands Don Caballero and Storm and Stress. Battles, which has a song called "Ice Cream", it turns out has quite the palate... bone marrow, Japan fish market, and...

Despite being brilliant, young, and handsome, none of Trevor Powers' groupies have sent backstage a lick of food. If left to his own devices, the 22-year-old is pretty much eating (inspiring) chicken wraps and Taco Bell. Let's get him some fuel! He channels aspects of youth (and, let's be honest,...

JB Townsend and Andy Adler of Brooklyn's Crystal Stilts talk to Band Bites today about their love of Mexican food, eating what the locals eat, and bad luck in Madrid. Check out their newest music as soon as possible and gift them...

Nika Roza Danilova aka Zola Jesus was once an outsider experimental teenage noise-maker but is now an internationally celebrated electronic pop musician. This little powerhouse (she's 4'11"!) opens up about what fuels her on the road. Turns out, it's mostly chocolate.

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Jonathan Berlin, from the psychedelic electronic pop band Sunbears!, loves his wife more that food. But he also loves food, a lot. We learn a little about what Jonathan as well as his band mate Jared -- one a vegetarian and the other a...

For someone so uncompromising in his attitude towards music, Matthew Herbert has seen success in a variety of fields. He heads up his own record label, Accidental Records, which he founded in 2000. To those new to his work, a Herbert album might initially sound like it fits into the...

Craig Gordon and David Bolt started out as a hip hop two-piece in the late 90s and have been writing music in some form ever since. With the addition of Karrie K on bass, indie-electronica outfit The Delta Mirror was born. Machines That Listen is the band's debut album; each...

With an arsenal of infectious pop punk songs, Total Babes started in 2010 by accident during a jam session in Medina, Ohio. Singer/guitarist Chris Brown and Cloud Nothings' drummer Jayson Gerycz were screwing around and came up with some catchy songs. The band filled out with Gary Spolarich on bass...

Since forming in 2007, indie rockers Smith Westerns have managed to tour with major acts including MGMT, Florence and the Machine and Belle and Sebastian. The Chicago five-piece released their debut, self-titled album in 2009. Early this year, Cullen Omori, Cameron Omori, Max Kakacek, Hal James and Ziyad Asrar recorded...

What's cuter than a husband and wife indie rock duo? A husband and pregnant wife indie rock duo. That's David and Meredith Metcalf. They make up the core of Highland Park, Calif.-based Bodies of Water. The two mixed and recorded their recently released album,...

The Long Beach, Calif. indie rockers known as The Fling draw inspiration from an eclectic mix of folk, rock, pop and psychedelic music. Their sound has been described as, "Classic '60s pop, '90s alternative and contemporary indie-rock clashing fluidly to create a...

Just as Dustin Payseur was about to leave Brooklyn, N.Y., and move back home to Charlotte, N.C., he got the break he was looking for -- a record deal. Soon after joining forces with guitarist Chris Burke, bassist John Pena and drummer Tommy Lucas, Beach Fossils signed to Captured Tracks...