I chose back in June to make sure I remained present and engaged with this inglorious moment by listening exclusively to newly released music. Here is an overview of 2025’s Summer vibes.
indie rock
Like discovering free verse, punk rock, or Prince, Guided by Voices offered the awesome realization that you could literally do whatever the fuck you want and it might actually be good.
OK Computer was the Sgt. Pepper of a generation with diminished expectations.
For David Berman, the edge was an asymptote.
The news of college rock’s death has been slightly exaggerated. Like birds and butterflies, small touring bands make […]
Lo these many years ago, a scruffy band of boho assholes with incomprehensible lyrics and a Burroughs […]
There are perfect songs (depending on one’s taste, perhaps “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Crazy,” or “Paranoid”) and there […]
We often tend to mistakenly think of the 1980s in ways that paint it as uniformly conforming to […]