In 2008, Anticon, the defunct indie label founded by the avant-garde hip-hop collective of the same name, released At War with Walls & Mazes, the debut album by Son Lux. Back then, Son Lux was the nam...

Kim Gordon has been touring her 2026 studio album, Play Me, since mid-April. Thus far, the journey has taken Kim, her bandmates, and her road crew from California to the Netherlands, France, England, ...

Fall frontman Mark E. Smith once famously said, “If it’s me and your granny on bongos, it’s the Fall.” The quote was apt, as Smith was notorious for firing band members and maintaining a constantly ch...

Hovvdy is a band indie snobs rarely mention having an appreciation for when discussing anything in the rock/pop genre that even slightly approaches American country music. Sure, music nerds are quick ...

The Mountain Goats have recorded and released music for over thirty years on more than ten different record labels. The indie band’s latest, Days, is their twenty-fourth studio album overall. Remarkab...

The final day of Mosswood Meltdown 2026 took place on Sunday, July 19th. Much like the day before, attendees were blessed with clear, comfortable weather. Being a lifelong New Englander, I’ve often fo...

The first official day of this year’s Mosswood Meltdown, the annual punk, garage, and DIY music festival that has taken place in Oakland, California every year in some iteration since 2009, was July 1...

Even for a double album, 17 songs in 79 minutes is on the long side. The Clash’s London Calling delivered 19 songs in 65 minutes. Prince’s 1999 stretched 11 songs over 70 minutes. Perhaps the key diff...

For an indie rock band thirty years and eleven studio albums into a consequentially successful career, taking four years between full-lengths isn’t unusual. The events that happen within that space ca...

Giving your sophomore album the exact same name as your debut that came out only two years prior is a weird move. No “part 2”, no “volume II”, not even a “2026” after the title so listeners can differ...

Initially it seems weird that a woman born in 2006 would want to make an album filled with songs that sound like they might have been played on alternative rock radio circa 1996. Things begin to make ...

Ten years after its initial release, Frankie Cosmos’ Next Thing, the album remains a masterclass in capturing the overwhelming feeling of young adulthood. With a special-edition reissue marking the al...

There’s nothing more tedious than an album sequel. Name one non-greatest hits/singles collection “part 2” that was as decent as its predecessor. You can’t. Thankfully Metric are beyond their Formenter...

Record Store Day took place this year on April 18th. For those unfamiliar, RSD has been held every year across the globe since 2008 on the third Saturday in April. The purpose of the event is to ce…

The opening ten seconds of “Guns Out”, the first track on Netherland garage rockers Iguana Death Cult’s fourth studio album of the same name, sounds remarkably like the bassline for the Chemical Br…

It’s been almost four and a half years since Snail Mail’s last studio album, Valentine, a record that found Lindsey Jordan writing about, among other things: love’s highs and lows, obsession,…

During a January 2026 episode of the interview podcast the ?uestlove Show, Kim Gordon told the Roots’ drummer she hasn’t played bass since Sonic Youth’s last gig. For those keeping track, that was …

Following the dissolution of the late-eighties British indie pop group Talulah Gosh, Amelia Fletcher (vocals, guitar), Matthew Fletcher (drums), Peter Momtchiloff (guitar), and Robert Pursey (bass)…

In April of 2020, Xiu Xiu began releasing fully produced cover songs every month to subscribers via their Bandcamp profile. At present, around 55 songs have been made available. Xiu Mutha Fuckin’ X…

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Secret Love is a good title for Dry Cleaning’s third studio album. After all, secrets are generally kept inside and, although the group’s sound instrumentally on their latest release is largely mea…

Silk Daisys’ influences will be immediately obvious to fans of 80s and 90s indie pop, noise pop, dream pop, and new wave. The Atlanta band is inspired by groups that exemplified the best of these g…

Don’t feel bad for Evan Dando. He doesn’t want you to feel bad for him. The son of a fashion model mother and a real estate attorney dad, Dando grew up in a 3,300 square foot apartment that overloo…

10. bloodsports: Anything Can Be a Hammer Anything Can Be A Hammer by Bloodsports 09. Pulp: More Nearly twenty-five years passed between the release of Pulp’s We Love Life and the Britpop legends’ …

50. Tanner York “Girlfriend” Asheville, North Carolina underground power pop genius Tanner York released his debut full-length album, Welcome to the Shower, in July. Five months later w…

At first listen, Australia might not be your first guess as to the country of origin of Folk Bitch Trio. Comparisons to the songs on their debut full-length, Now Would Be a Good Time, can easily be dr...

We Are Scientists’ founding and only consistent members, Chris Cain and Keith Murray, have been recording albums infused with their brand of too-slick-to-be-indie, too-bland-to-crossover alternative r...

It’s hard to believe it has already been over three years since Wet Leg dropped their eponymous debut studio album. Tack an additional year onto that time if you remember hearing their single “Chaise ...

If you’re not counting his work with the Modern Lovers, the highly influential proto-punk band Jonathan Richman formed in Boston in 1970, or the LPs he recorded as Jonathan Richman and the Modern Love...

One month after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States that ultimately altered global politics and public security forever, Pulp released what was then expected to be the Britpop ma...

For a singer-songwriter entering her third decade recording and releasing music under her own name, it may seem odd that Tracy Bonham’s latest proper studio album, Sky Too Wide, is only her eighth. Bu...

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There’s a moment during “See You There”, the ninth song on Tune-Yards’ sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, when singer Merrill Garbus screams, “You said I’m going to hell, well, I’ll see you there!” ...

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“The Same Thing as Nothing at All”, the five-minute, swirling, sing-spoken moment that opens Destroyer’s fourteenth studio album, Dan’s Boogie, is a weirdly premature victory lap that has the seasoned...

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