Rooted in the sound and sensibility of American underground and alternative rock of the ’80s, it’s rock made by and for outsiders with a wariness of excess testosterone.
There was a time when Grandaddy was labeled "the American Radiohead." The comparison never sat well with me, only because Radiohead are a bunch of snobbish whatevers who
The irony of Lost in the Country's first song being titled "Rock & Roll" is certainly not lost on me. Because it is discernibly not rock & roll. Despite rising form the
There was a time when Wolf Parade was “challenging” music. But it seems the owners of that tradition have spun that mantle off to side projects and personal quibbles. Or
I don't know much about Pat Benatar other than the fact she was a style icon. And played some 80s rock tunes that stylized power chords and put some ballz into the genre
Necking is a term that my mom (Boomer that she is) used when I was a kid. Like way too much. She used it in reference to her own high-school days and to anything having
Another classic album. Another Steve Albini production. It's not even as though I'm doing this on purpose, but I keep gravitating to these soft-loud-soft indie rock
Continuing my week of Jawbreaker retro fanboy-ism, here’s Blake Schwarzenbach’s 1998 follow up to the implosion of that band’s swan song, Dear You. It’s an album that
