The 10 Best Suede Songs
Join us as we celebrate the 10 best Suede songs and their mastery of one of Britain’s great modern artistic traditions: the pop single.
Arnold Pan
The 20 Essential Pavement Songs
This stroll down memory lane’s shady lane only underscores how a collection of Stephen Malkmus’ sharpest turns-of-phrase comes off like a veritable Bartlett’s Famous Quotations for the Gen X indie set.
Listening Ahead: Upcoming Music Releases for June 2015
Catch an early glimpse of new albums from Jamie xx, Sun Kil Moon, and Hudson Mohawke.
Mikal Cronin: MCIII
It's easy to assume that an artist will keep developing each time out, but Mikal Cronin shows that he doesn't take his evolution for granted on MCIII.
Listening Ahead: Upcoming Music Releases for May 2015
Get the early word on new albums by My Morning Jacket, the Tallest Man on Earth, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
Built to Spill: Untethered Moon
Built to Spill's guitar-driven sound is the indie-rock equivalent of comfort food, indulgent and satisfying in how familiar it is.
Speedy Ortiz: Foil Deer
They may party like it's 1995, but 2015 might just be the year of Speedy Ortiz.
Fact and Fiction: The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on Wrestling and the Creative Process
The prolific songwriter and now acclaimed author John Darnielle tells PopMatters how he created his wrestling-themed album Beat the Champ, what he calls the Mountain Goats' "most musically interesting record by a country mile".
Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Even though Courtney Barnett has tightened and punched up her sound, her songwriting still gets stuck in your head because she gets lost in her own imagination.
Modest Mouse: Strangers to Ourselves
On Strangers to Ourselves, Modest Mouse often come off like strangers to themselves.
Natalie Prass: Natalie Prass
Natalie Prass is technically a self-titled singer-songwriter debut. It's just that it doesn't sound like any of those things.