Slint’s ‘Spiderland’ and self-titled EP are available on black vinyl in our store. Once upon a time in Louisville, a few hardcore kids were getting tired of the genre so they formed a new band and ...

With just six songs and a running time under 40 minutes, the 1991 album “Spiderland” by the quartet known as Slint is an unlikely landmark. Yet the record, with its clear ringing guitar sounds stabbed ...

When Slint walked onstage as a five-piece Friday evening, the sun was hot on the back of about 14,000 necks crowding right field of Chicago’s Union Park, a youth-league baseball field four blocks from ...

On the heels of a surprise 2005 reunion, Slint is regrouping for a spring/summer tour during which it will perform its iconic 1991 album "Spiderland" in its entirety. The group is also working on… By ...

There was an episode of the T.V. Series Gilmore Girls where Rory ditches school and takes a bus to New York to visit Jess, the bad boy that she won’t admit to be being totally into. When she finds him ...

The Louisville band's 1991 classic, now the subject of a lavish reissue, deserves reconsideration as a work of haunting beauty and surprising warmth. During its original run in the late '80s and early ...

A little more than two years ago, I was thinking about placing a bid on a beat-up Fender Stratocaster listed on eBay for around $800. This wasn't just any Strat — it belonged toDavid Pajo, guitarist ...

If you Google the words “Brian McMahan,” you’ll wade through Web pages devoted to a religious speaker, a gold-medal-winning Canadian rower and a wedding photographer. What you won’t come across is the ...

Slint’s breakthrough record was released in April 1999. Constructed around sombre, geologically-paced drums and guitar, and fortified texturally with little more than subdued samples clipped from ...

Post-rock's crowning glory beautifully remastered, with bonus tracks, a film... and its mystery intact... Come the 1990s, amongst a certain constituency of alternative musicians, there was the ...

Slint's second and final album, Spiderland, produced a famously prophetic review by Steve Albini. "It's an amazing record," he wrote in Melody Maker in 1991, "and no one still capable of being moved ...

For the Morning Edition Song Project, we've asked musicians to capture life in the era of COVID-19 by writing an original song that describes this turbulent moment. When we contacted Colin Meloy of ...