It was late on a Friday, and I was hanging out with my parents in Gastonia, NC. They […]
Category Archive: indie rock
The Sound of Motor City: Ruin Porn, Popular Memory, and Protomartyr’s Vision of 21st Century Detroit
For the past couple years, one of the most vital sounds in music today has come out of […]
We live in an era when the music industry is long since “dead” (slain by Napster, and its […]
Recently, the great historians at Nursing Clio issued a Twitter query: what’s on your feminist playlist? Along with […]
Back in 1997, Stephen Malkmus was asked in an interview when it was that Pavement sold out or […]
The advantage of surprise can overcome a multitude of sins; poor planning, mediocre workmanship, sloppy execution, they can […]
The year was 1996—almost 20 years ago, kids—and the alternative revolution was in its dead-ender stage. Kurt Cobain […]
“If they hadn’t come along I think we would have to invent them somehow,” impressively bearded writer Robert […]