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- Artist Profile: Bon IverUpdated: 2008-10-03 @ 09:46:48 GMT
Justin Vernon made a heartbroken record in a Wisconsin cabin in the middle of winter. Plenty of people have warmed to it… - An Interview with Chad VanGaalenUpdated: 2008-09-30 @ 13:56:31 GMT
The tall Canadian songsmith talks raiding rubbish skips, building instruments, and the everyman inspiration of the lo-fi movement… - Chad VanGaalen 'Soft Airplane'Updated: 2008-09-30 @ 12:04:20 GMT
The third album for the self-styled Canadian mystic is a typical mixed-bag, an ad-hoc assemblage of mismatched instrumentage that occasionally seems magical, often not… - Beach House Fall Into Fall, Tour Late '08Created: 2008-09-25 @ 10:59:40 GMT
After pressing up their first-ever seven-inch, the Baltimore duo take to the road … - Definitive Albums: Neutral Milk Hotel 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'Updated: 2008-09-24 @ 15:19:55 GMT
Neutral Milk Hotel main-man Jeff Mangum still hasn't been able to bring himself to attempt a successor to this slice of longplaying perfection… - White Hinterland Speaks French, Tours EuropeCreated: 2008-09-23 @ 10:59:02 GMT
In support of her Francophone EP 'Luniculaire', White Hinterland's Casey Dienel trips across the EU… - Top 10 'Obscure' Starter AlbumsUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 14:05:07 GMT
These unique, unusual, underground albums sound thrilling, strange, and amazing to this day. They're the best 'Obscure' albums lurking in popular music's fringes, inspiring many with their abundant… - Top 10 Matador AlbumsUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 13:57:18 GMT
Few record-labels have had an ongoing, unbroken run of pop-cultural credibility like Matador Records; whose 20 years on the job has uncovered an embarrassment of recorded riches. Here's ten glitter… - Top 10 Alternative Starter AlbumsUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 13:57:18 GMT
The defining entries in any alternative record collection. The iconoclasts whose singular sound has shaped a whole generation of underground acts… - Top 10 Sub Pop AlbumsUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 13:49:05 GMT
Though it'll be forever associated with grunge, Seattle's legendary Sub Pop Records has reinvented itself in the new millennium, presiding over an eclectic lineup of increasingly-successful acts. H… - Top 10 Merge AlbumsUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 13:44:47 GMT
From Superchunk to Destroyer, Guv'ner to the Arcade Fire, we count down 10 choice discs served up in the history of North Carolina's Merge Records… - An Interview with Mogwai's Stuart BraithwaiteUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 10:21:22 GMT
The guitarist of the Scottish post-rock heroes is howling… - An Interview with The Walkmen's Hamilton LeithauserUpdated: 2008-09-21 @ 10:28:11 GMT
Eight years and four albums into things, the ultra-moody New Yorkers are in career-best form. Their throaty vocalist talks it like they walk it… - Brendan Canning 'Something for All of Us'Updated: 2008-09-17 @ 09:01:08 GMT
Brendan Canning's solo debut is like a duller, flatter take on Broken Social Scene's collectivist mediocrity… - Parenthetical Girls 'Entanglements'Updated: 2008-09-17 @ 08:54:38 GMT
The Portland outfit's latest longplayer marries jaunty orchestrations with lyrical grotesqueries, unexpectedly making for one of 2008's best discs. … - Dig!Created: 2008-09-13 @ 12:51:55 GMT
A seven-year chronicle of the rise of The Dandy Warhols and the fall of The Brian Jonestown Massacre… - Death Vessel Tours Second RecordUpdated: 2008-09-12 @ 11:55:40 GMT
In support of his second Death Vessel album, 'Nothing is Precious Enough for Us', Joel Thibodeau hits the road… - TV on the Radio Drop Science, Hit RoadUpdated: 2008-09-12 @ 11:52:15 GMT
Following the release of their punctuation-inclusive 'Dear Science,' LP, TVOTR unleash a slate of dates for late-'08… - Alt History: Kurt Cobain wears Daniel Johnston T-Shirt to VMAsUpdated: 2008-09-09 @ 17:00:53 GMT
Back in 1992, what t-shirt you wore really mattered… - Artist Profile: NirvanaUpdated: 2008-09-09 @ 16:54:19 GMT
Profile of the life and death of the alternative legends… - Alternative and Indie MusicUpdated: 2008-09-09 @ 15:29:14 GMT
From the Velvet Underground to Animal Collective, Sonic Youth to Belle & Sebastian, Suicide to Sufjan, get the straight dope on the history, essentials, and credentials of alternative music… - An Interview with Parenthetical Girls' Zac PenningtonCreated: 2008-09-09 @ 15:19:20 GMT
Parenthetical Girls' album 'Entanglements' is an ambitious, impressive orchestral epic. Here, frontman Zac Pennington spills the beans on its making… - An Interview with Death Vessel's Joel ThibodeauCreated: 2008-09-09 @ 08:23:49 GMT
The gentle folkie with the high, high voice colors in his pre-Sub Pop musical backstory… - Stereolab 'Chemical Chords'Updated: 2008-09-08 @ 13:49:49 GMT
Stereolab's latest longplayer sounds exactly like every other record they've ever made. But it's not exactly like every other record they've ever made…