Jump back a decade to revisit the best indie rock of 2014, where newer acts did more than just fill the vacuum left by the usual suspects.
The Smiths changed the face of rock music and inspired a cult of fandom nearly unmatched since Beatlemania. These are their 13 best songs.
Jump back a decade and visit the best indie rock albums of 2013, which include King Krule’s debut, My Bloody Valentine’s return, and Waxahatchee’s brilliance.
New Order’s danceable rhythms and quick, clean melodies inspired a slew of paler imitators then and a new onslaught of dance-punk bands in the past few decades.
Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock is a blue-collar poet in the best American tradition, and The Lonesome Crowded West is his opus. Our track-by-track analysis of the classic indie rock album shows its brilliance.
Fugazi’s ethics and DIY attitude’s symbolism remain crucially important to their legacy and what we can learn from them in the 21st century.
“Indie rock” is a huge catch-all term. 2011’s best indie rock albums list focuses on artists who are more rock-oriented, taking their cues from the genre’s styles and traditions.
"Indie rock" is a term as amorphous and hard-to-pin-down as some of its associated lingo. But for our purposes here, we'll go with a line of demarcation strangely omitted from the discussion much of the time: the rock portion of the equation.
Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz talks about a growing progressive movement in rock music, her new record, Foil Deer, and more.
