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And You Know There’s Something More, But You Can’t Give It A Name: Luna’s Penthouse At 25

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 1995, Dave Grohl, Dean Wareham, Elektra Records, Galaxie 500, Justin Harwood, Laetita Sadier, Luna, Sean Eden, Stan Demeski, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Tom Verlaine, Wings

Looking back at the last album from the New York band’s classic lineup

Indie Rock New Wave Post-Punk

ALBUMS: London Plane Flies High

August 15, 2020August 17, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, 285 Kent, Baby Jupiter, Brownies, London Plane. New York City, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Ronettes

On their breakthrough second album, the Brooklyn band takes flight despite in a city grounded by COVID-19

Folk Indie Rock

Business Womyn of the New Millennium

August 6, 2020 Nikki Wertheim 0 Comments 2000, 20th Anniversary, Neil Young, Sara Quin, Tegan Quin, This Business of Art, Vapor Records

How ProTools and Neil Young helped put Tegan and Sara over in the year 2000

Indie Rock New Wave Pop Post-Punk

The Soft Boys: This Was Us

July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 Chris Parker 0 Comments 1980, I Wanna Destroy You, Insanely Jealous, Kemberley Rew, Robyn Hitchcock, The Soft Boys, The Stranglers, Underwater Moonlight, Wire

Underwater Moonlight offers the mentally unbalanced view of love

Indie Rock

Musicians Unite Against Alzheimer’s Disease

July 19, 2020July 20, 2020 Eric Davidson 0 Comments Alzheimer's Disease, Anna Calvi, Beach Slang, Cold Specks, Moby, Mon Amie Records, Mute Records, New Order, The Longest Day, Wolfmanhattan Project

New Order, Moby, Bleach Slang, Anna Calvi and others come together for a most important charity collection

Indie Rock Power Pop

Big Dipper Hits A Slam

July 16, 2020July 17, 2020 Brad Cohan 0 Comments 1990, Big Dipper, College Radio, Epic Records, Slam

The inside story of how the Boston college-rock heroes fell prey to the major label conglomerate in 1990

Indie Rock North Americana

FIRST LISTEN: “Love Doesn’t Come From The Barrel Of A Gun” by Chuck Prophet

July 10, 2020July 16, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, Chuck Prophet, Green On Red, Jonathan Richman, The Land That Time Forgot, The Paisley Underground, Tom Petty, Yep Roc

The Rock & Roll Globe premieres the latest song from the Paisley Underground vet’s new album The Land That Time Forgot

Hardcore Indie Rock Noise Pop Post-Punk Power Pop

Celebrated Summer: New Day Rising Turns 35

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020 Eric Davidson 0 Comments 1985, Bob Mould, Grant Hart, Greg Norton, Husker Du, Joan Rivers, New Day Rising, SST

By 1985, Hüsker Dü reached the point of no return in succumbing to their pop sensibilities

Indie Rock Pop

The Diary of a Teenage Noise Addict

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments 1995, 25th Anniversary, Australia, Beastie Boys, Ben Lee, Brad Wood, Grand Royal, Grandpaw Would, Noise Addict

25 years later, Grandpaw Would reflects Ben Lee’s endurance as an alt-pop mainstay

Indie Rock

WATCH: “Back Wall” By Yuzima Philip

June 30, 2020June 30, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, Back Wall, Black Lives Matter, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Lower East Side, New York City, Yuzima Philip

Longtime Lower East Side scene survivor celebrates Black Lives Matter and George Floyd in new music video

Indie Rock

‘These Are Different Matters, These Are Uncertain Feelings’: Blonde Redhead’s ‘Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons’ At 20

June 24, 2020June 25, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 2000, Amadeo Pace, Blonde Rehead, Fugazi, Guy Picciotto, Kazu Makino, Rites of Spring, Simone Pace, Touch & Go Records

A look back at the coolest world party of 2000

Indie Rock

Mighty Mouse: The Moon & Antarctica at 20

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 Ian King 0 Comments 2000, Built To Spill, Epic Records, Eric Judy, Isaac Brock, Jeremiah Green, Modest Mouse, Pavement, Seattle, The Moon & Antarctica, Up Records

Why the third Modest Mouse LP remains the band’s quintessential creative statement

Indie Rock Power Pop

Critical Mass: A Catholic Education at 30

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Eric Davidson 0 Comments 1990, Bandwagonesque, Gerard Cosloy, Gerard Love, Homestead Records, Matador Records, Nirvana, Norman Blake, SPIN, Teenage Fanclub

Talking Teenage Fanclub with Matador Records co-founder Gerard Cosloy about the Scottish pop greats’ debut album

Indie Rock Power Pop

‘I Took The Wrong Direction From A Shooting Star’: Teenage Fanclub’s Grand Prix At 25

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 1995, 25th Anniversary, Bandwagonesque, formed in Bellshill near Glasgow in 1989.[1] The ba Norman Blake, Gerard Love, Grand Prix, Raymond McGinley, Teenage Fanclub

For their third DGC classic, the Fannies put power pop back in the pole position

Indie Rock Noise Post-Hardcore

The Ballad Of A Band Called E

May 28, 2020June 5, 2020 Brad Cohan 0 Comments 2020, Chris Spencer, Complications, Gavin McCarthy, Jason SanfordNeptune, Karate, Silver Rocket, Thalia Zedek, Thrill JockeyCome

On Complications, Thalia Zedek, Jason Sanford and Gavin McCarthy put forth a total group effort

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