Welcome to a week devoted to Slowcore… arguably the “Alternative to Alternative music” that grew up in the shadow of Grunge, just as Teenage Rebellion was being commodified in the early 1990s. There ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Duster has had quite the second life. The San Jose-born band from the turn-of-the-century experienced a serious resurgence in popularity the past few years that led to their back ...

In Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life, the author closes his excellent history of the US underground of the 1980s with a condemnation of the music which came after. He decries the ...

Last year, we detailed five fantastic post-rock bands that scoff at the term post-rock and, more or less, pissed on the very thought of being tagged as such. With Luna’s Dean Wareham and Britta ...

“Snakes” is the final salvo before the release of Lapse on May 31 via Arts & Crafts, the resounding return of slowcore pioneers IDAHO with their first new album in more than 13 years. Led by Laurel ...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, after two decades of music steadily getting faster and faster via punk, hardcore and speed metal, things started to slow way down. On the heavier end of things, ...

UK band Deathcrash formed in 2019 and released two EPs and a 7″ since then, and last month they put out their first full-length, Return, and it’s already shaping up to be one of 2022’s most remarkable ...

LA slowcore vets Idaho have announced their first album in 13 years, Lapse, the followup to 2011’s You Were A Dick. It comes out May 31 via Arts & Crafts (pre-order). It was made by founder/leader ...

If you’re driving through the night, the journey from Brooklyn to Boston can feel longer than it actually is. Traversing through wealthy Connecticut towns and working-class Worcester County, the ...

Kyle Bates is a full-blown audio nerd. He teaches recording classes at the California Institute of the Arts, where he’s also pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree, and holds a master’s degree in ...

Idaho have announced their first new album in 13 years, Lapse, which will be released in May. The Los Angeles slowcore band haven't put out a proper full-length since 2011's You Were A Dick, and ...

Crawl, don’t walk to your local Ticketmaster outlet: Slowcore pioneers Codeine are back! After decelerating to a stop 18 years ago, Sub Pop’s kings of gorgeous plod are back to gently kick ass and ...