The good news for the common listener is that as far as albums with librettos go, this one is surprisingly easy to bang your way through — sort of like a Guided by Voices LP expanded to The Lamb Lies ...

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 ...

The majority of the albums on our list of underrated indie rock albums from the 1990s came from the bustling artistic hub of the Pacific Northwest. The 1998 album The Rebels Not In by The Halo Benders ...

As the vibrant hues of summer yield to the crisp embrace of autumn, New England undergoes a subtle transformation. Leaves turn to shades of gold, temperatures cool and a sense of nostalgia permeates ...

The South Korean trio Wave to Earth embarked on its first U.S. tour this month, a run that includes a sold-out Sept. 1 show at Houston's Ballroom at Warehouse Live. YOUNG, GIFTED, BLACK AND INDIE: 26 ...

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 — ...

On Wednesday, the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame announced its class of 2022: Dolly Parton, Eminem, Duran Duran, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon, Eurythmics, and Pat Benatar. The New York Times called it as “a ...

Today on Commotion, music journalist Emilie Hanskamp and CBC host Lisa Christiansen join Elamin Abdelmahmoud to explain how Geese took the music world by storm this year, and why not everyone ...

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 ...

If the indie rock of Pavement merged with the dream pop of Mazzy Star, you might end up with the groovy all-female Denver trio Barbara. Drawing influences from psychedelic-rock bands such as Crumb and ...

There’s no point trying to generalize Indonesian music. That just won’t work. Indonesia is the world’s largest island nation, and the fourth-most populous country in the world, home to roughly 280 ...

The trendy obsession with subgenre may be achingly lame, but the music inspiring the excess labeling often isn’t. Case in point: chillwave, which to me sounds like some neon elixir you’d order on a ...