This is one deep, dark, beautiful record. Midlake has been working on The Courage of Others for a few years now, even scrapping it all entirely at one point. The band stopped touring in 2007, in part, ...

After a three year absence, Texas based folk-rockers Midlake will return to action in 2010 with its third album and a heavy touring schedule. By Michael D. Ayers After a three year absence, Texas ...

Sometimes it takes a strong muscle of courage to stand up and change a formula that's proven to work. For Denton, Texas, indie rock band Midlake, that's exactly what they did for its latest album, ...

If Van Occupanther is Stevie Nicks-era Fleetwood Mac, then The Courage of Others is the band’s homage to Jethro Tull. Courage wouldn’t sound out of place in King Henry VIII’s court, or even as the ...

Imagine the Romantic poets mourning climate change to a 1970s folk-rock soundtrack and you won't be far from The Courage of Others. The third album from Texan quintet Midlake, it trembles with awe of ...

Many bands model their sound on one group. But how many pattern themselves on just one song? On their latest CD, the much buzzed-about act Midlake appear to have done just that. Every track on “The ...

Midlake has been compared to acts such as Fleetwood Mac or Jethro Tull. But its harshest critics have also called it a rip-off band. Midlake's members say their music is different, and they want to ...

With its layered melodies and gentle guitar progressions, Midlake‘s 2006 breakout album, “The Trials of Van Occupanther,” was a hypnotizing riff on classic-rock conventions. For third album… By ...

Midlake’s leader Tim Smith spoke wistfully in a 2007 interview of wanting to write songs that sounded like Jethro Tull. A curious aspiration for a young Texan, but The Courage of Others makes good on ...

Back in their days as music students at the University of North Texas in Denton, the future members of Midlake reveled in chord and tempo changes and then morphed into a Radiohead-lite knockoff. But ...

The authentically auburn harmonies and storied West Coast AOR of Midlake’s breakthrough album, 2006’s The Trials Of Van Occupanther, suggested that the band had been wallowing in Laurel Canyon lore ...