At tonight's VMAs, Nirvana were the recipients of the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, the lifetime-achievement honor traditionally given out to whichever famous artist MTV can convince to show ...

Slinky indie-soul adventurer and unlikely hitmaker Steve Lacy released his most recent album Oh yeah? over the summer, and he'll spend the fall touring across North America. On Sunday night, Lacy ...

Last night, Leslie Feist, who has built a fantastic legacy as part of Broken Social Scene and with her solo music as Feist, was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame at Massey Hall in ...

When Queens Of The Stone Age announced their upcoming album Perfecth last month, one item on the tracklist immediately stood out. That’s when we learned of the existence of a QOTSA song called “Where ...

Timothy Showalter makes soulfully scraggly indie rock as Strand Of Oaks, and he seems to have a nice little side hustle adding his own soulfully scraggly presence to various television spinoffs. Back ...

About a year ago, North Carolina electro-folk duo Sylvan Esso took a righteous risk, removing their catalog from Spotify in protest of founder Daniel Ek's investment in the military defense contractor ...

In July, 2hollis leaned into darkness with "Hurt," a cinematic track that flirted with industrial techno. Now, the unpredictable rapper/singer is back to EDM-infused pop bombast with his new song "Sex ...

Are you getting excited about the new Drin album yet? Next week, the Drin, the subgenre-hopping, grimily grandiose Cincinnati underground rock unit, will release their new double album I Lost My Way ...

Sometimes I wonder: If I encountered a past version of myself, what would I say? Would I ignore her? Would we get matching tattoos or grab a beer somewhere? Would I have enough compassion to sit down ...

We were into "Control," the recent single from Oakland "queer post-bubblegum slut grunge" crew Heavy Lifter, and I'd argue "Backyard" is even better. Out today via the great Cherub Dream label, the ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

Phoebe Bridgers has been busy. Last month, she shared her highly anticipated new album Lost Weekend and struggled to celebrate the release thanks to appendicitis. Now, she’s making her acting debut in ...