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Jeff Rosenstock discusses the record that birthed the industry’s first donation-based label, which remains a blueprint for do-or-die DIY two decades on.

A product of the desolate environment in which it was made, the Bay Area experimentalist’s second album pairs bare-bones grunge with evocative field recordings.

Following Bob and Gene Belcher’s Joy Division cover, we revisit a few favorite instances when the long-running animated series crossed over with alternative music royalty.

This gigantic comp album featuring 110 Minnesotan artists raising funds for immigrant communities terrorized by ICE may also happen to be where you find your new favorite band.

The Toronto puzzle-pop quartet’s second record better integrates their impish tendencies; just like their origami namesake, the surprises unfold one after another.

25 songs for both the rambunctious party and the reflective walk home, featuring Frankie Cosmos, The Wonder Years, Flaming Lips, Dove Ellis, Sufjan Stevens, and plenty more.

On their Cate Le Bon–produced second album, the Chicago trio reflects the fragmentation and uncertainty of geographical change by experimenting with a more minimalist, primitive palette.

Movement is central to the Chicago-based songwriter’s third LP, with a dynamic new indie-rock kick helping to propel its central thesis about love and loss.

After mastering the art of irreverent power-pop, Sarah Tudzin tones down the mischief on an uncharacteristically sincere document of honeymoon contentment and goofy domestic bliss.

The former Summer Cannibals band leader tempers her sound but reaches new levels of freedom as she steps into the role of main character on her first solo album.

Preoccupied with a sense of new beginnings, the West Coast psych band’s fifth album faces instability head-on with some of their most unpredictable tunes.

The London post-rock band’s debut collection of instrumental vignettes is music to get lost in—though you certainly won’t forget it’s playing.

Overflowing with euphoric rock anthems and personal epiphanies, the London outfit’s second album finds unfettered joy where there wasn’t any before.

Co-founded by fanclubwallet’s Hannah Judge and chemical club’s Michael Watson, the indie label discusses their community-minded approach to spotlighting music from the Canadian province they call home.

In our latest digital cover story, the band—along with recent tourmate Maggie Rogers and album producer Shawn Everett—reflect on Blue Rev ahead of its one-year anniversary reissue, and how trusting the deep dives (and each other) makes it all worthwhile.

More cohesive than its title suggests, the second album from the Brooklyn trio is a snappy, bouncing clatter of post-punk vitality.

The Best Coast vocalist on ripping up the rulebook and rediscovering herself during the creation of her first solo album, Natural Disaster.

Impressionistic contemplation of the past and discomfort with the present is buried under sodden, water-logged synths and glitchy samples on the genre-defying group’s third proper album.

Alicia Bognanno details how the huge sound of her new LP comes from an intimate place.

From buzzy broncos feeble little horse to folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman, there seems to be an increasing number of equine-named artists; we investigated this phenomenon.