indie rock
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Rivers Cuomo Does Fetty Wap
Apparently, the Weezer frontman has been really digging hip-hop’s Top 40 lately. His recent covers testify to the fact: he’s posted a version of Rae Sremmurd’s “Come Get Her,” and, most recently, Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen.” A new Weezer album is…
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Albums of Our Lives: Guided by Voices’s Alien Lanes
For me, Bob Pollard became a messiah of the creative life, urging me forward for many years to come, in my new, somewhat shabby but inspired career.
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Albums of Our Lives: The National’s High Violet
I wanted to feel sheltered under the cathedral of his voice, to feel, always, the way his songs made me feel.
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Believe in Baltimore
Members of Baltimore indie bands Future Islands, Lower Dens, Celebration, The Bridge, and Mt. Royal got together with Believe in Music at the Living Classrooms Foundation and WTMD to help local middle school students give voice to their experience of…
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This Week in Posivibes: Dave Monks
The frontman of Tokyo Police Club released the debut of his solo project June 16th on Dine Alone Records. The EP, All Signs Point to Yes, has been receiving some serious positivity from the indie rock press that previously hailed…
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Albums of Our Lives: Les Savy Fav’s Go Forth
It’s one of those records I’ve glued to a pedestal, like people do with torrid weekend affairs or their favorite dish at Denny’s.
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Sound Takes: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Like a whip-crack into my ears, [Barnett’s] songs reverberate through my head.
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Albums of Our Lives: Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm
We could hear the muffled roar of the show booming through the walls of the historic building. We were drunk, pretending to be music writers. We were giddy with our trespass.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #61: Songs for the Alliterative at Heart
Michael Hearst has come a long way from the guy who played plastic wind instruments on Seventh Avenue, to an admirably creative and original adulthood.
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The Rumpus Interview with Stacey D’Erasmo
Novelist Stacey D’Erasmo sits down to discuss her latest book, Wonderland, indie rock’s lack of a net, the appeal of visual artists, and what it means to put your entire self in your work.
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The Rumpus Interview with Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus—founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and main songwriter of Pavement, one of the most critically and publicly adored bands in indie rock history—talks about his recent years with the Jicks, writing riffs, and not dwelling on the past.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #49: Divided by a Common Tongue
Rick Moody interviews Belle & Sebastian’s Stevie Jackson about his solo album, misinterpreting songs, and the band’s rough early days.