The Smiths are bona fide rock heroes to a certain class of music listener—Morrissey’s wry observations and oblique narratives served as the textbook for a generation of young songwriters better at...
Like a multiracial student, St. Vincent would have trouble checking off her proper category on a SAT test.
When “How Deep Is Your Love?” dropped earlier this summer, you would have been forgiven for prematurely penciling In the Grace of Your Love into the 2011 year-end lists.
You might think, after hearing Circuital’s first track, “Victory Dance,” that My Morning Jacket have returned to the moody psychedelia of their 2005 album Z.
Bon Iver, Bon Iver is a superficially beautiful album.
Lady Gaga’s recent notoriety revolves more around her garish outfits than the merits of her music; this we take for granted.
When it comes to breaking up, the world of indie rock usually responds like the rest of us.
Establishing a consistently pleasing aesthetic treatment of your band’s sound is never easy, especially for LP number seven.
YACHT is an old moniker—one Jona Bechtolt has recorded under since 2002—but the project didn’t take off until 2009.
Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yArDs, calls herself “new kind of woman.” She’s not afraid to use alternating caps, sings ambivalently of sex and violence, plays the ukulele and makes a kind of pop that...
Press your ear to the pavement above the London underground and you might just hear, rumbling distantly below, the ghostly sounds of Burial.
The momentum of critical consensus has given Animal Collective and its associated projects a pretty long leash, due in large part to their reputation as something more than the typical hipster-set...
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s self-titled 2009 debut was without reservation an artifact of the ’90s, and drew comparisons to any number of that decade’s indie touchstones.
Blood Pressures, the Kills’ fourth studio album, could be described as the culmination of lead singer Alison Mosshart’s musical endeavors from the past few years.
If John Darnielle’s not going to make you dance, he’ll at least make you think.
According to Wiz Khalifa, hip-hop’s latest weed-rap sensation, the title of his third album, Rolling Papers, doesn’t just allude to smoking weed.
“I can’t be bothered with paying homage to forefathers.” That’s how Pusha T starts Fear of God.
Welsh indie rockers the Joy Formidable released critically acclaimed debut LP The Big Roar in January, and will perform at the Duke Coffeehouse tonight with the Lonely Forest and Mona.
People generally consider the Strokes’ 2003 sophomore effort Room on Fire an inferior follow-up to their relentlessly hyped 2001 debut Is This It; I’m one of the few who disagree.
