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The Beths Are Learning Their Way Through Love, Life, and ’90s Pop Standards

Elizabeth Stokes discusses how the group’s new album Expert in a Dying Field was inspired in equal parts by the complexities of jazz and the harmonies of pop music.

September 14, 2022
Playlist
10 Songs That Defined Why Bonnie’s Younger Years

With their sepia-toned debut LP 90 in November out now, the indie-pop quintet share a playlist of tracks they look back on fondly.

August 19, 2022
Playlist
27 Songs That Inspired TRAAMS’s New Album “Personal Best”

Ahead of Friday’s release day, Stu Hopkins also notes 5 albums the band “straight up ripped off” on their new LP.

July 18, 2022
Essay
Axe Musicians, Still Know the Tricks: Pavement Show Us How to Reunion Right 

With shows in 13 countries booked throughout the fall, it looks like the third iteration of indie rock’s enigmatic VIPs gets the honeymoon that never was.

July 13, 2022
Reviews
Automatic, “Excess”

The LA-based trio reshapes the aloof robotics of Kraftwerk and the auditory illusions of Melody’s Echo Chamber into their own unique voice on their second LP.

June 22, 2022
15 Acts Defining the Jangle Pop Renaissance

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Dehd, UV-TV, and more bands pushing rock music forward by pulling from the past.

May 09, 2022
Reviews
Melody’s Echo Chamber, “Emotional Eternal”

Melody Prochet’s third LP is more contained than her previous album and more sophisticated than her spirited echo-pop debut.

April 27, 2022
Reviews
Wet Leg, “Wet Leg”

The duo’s desperately anticipated self-titled debut elicits a too-cool-for-school demeanor and will appeal to any overthinking or underthinking post-millennial.

April 07, 2022
Reviews
Camp Cope, “Running with the Hurricane”

The Australian “power emo” trio use their latest LP to heal storm scars, allowing themselves a less purposeful indulgence that nevertheless resonates with the same immediacy

March 23, 2022
Reviews
The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Summer at Land’s End

The latest from Glenn Donaldson’s melancholy outfit is a rewarding release in an increasingly saturated jangle-pop landscape.

February 02, 2022
15 Great Alt-Rock Songs Inspired by Literary Fiction

From Green Day’s homage to “Catcher in the Rye” to Japanese Breakfast channeling Raymond Carver, here are some of the best tracks inspired by literature.

January 21, 2022
Art & CultureReviews
Kids on a Crime Spree, Fall in Love Not in Line

With a fondness for the usual jangling suspects, the band’s first release in 11 years is a cumulonimbus of reverby guitar-pop unconcerned with fitting in.

January 19, 2022
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