The 2000s might've been the golden age of indie rock, as albums like Arcade Fire's Funeral and Modest Mouse's The Moon & Antarctica show.

Pictoria Vark is the spoonerism alias of the young singer-songwriter Victoria Park, who turned heads with her 2022 debut album The Parts I Dread. She aims even higher on her excellent Nothing Sticks — ...

Think of the most iconic bands associated with the exploding U.S. indie-rock scene of the 1980s, and who comes to mind first? R.E.M., Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, and the Pixies, perhaps? Salem 66 were ...

Imagine the indie rock version of the Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers hit “Islands In The Stream”. Sometimes, dream collaborations happen. The albums below were one-off mini supergroups between musical ...

GREENSBORO, North Carolina — Lynn Blakey, a respected figure in the American indie rock scene whose work spanned several influential bands and served as inspiration for the alt-rock classic “Left of ...

Nothing hits quite like The Monitor. Titus Andronicus really outdid themselves with that 2010 record, and it’s pretty shocking that it didn’t at least make it to the Billboard 200. Fortunately, though ...

New York-based trio Scotch Mist has been carving out its own lane in the city’s indie scene, refusing to be boxed in by genre expectations. What started as a studio project between vocalist Ed ...

An indie rock band played its first concert in 24 years over the weekend.

11 Essential '90s Indie Rock Albums You Should Own on Vinyl You need these indie rock classics from the 1990s if you're a true vinyl collector who loves that era.

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

The recent stomp clap discourse sparked a lot of conversations about how the divisive 2010s subgenre grew out of 2000s indie-folk, and the evolution (and “gentrification”) of the latter is actually ...

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