This review has proven impossible to start off with a pithy introduction sentence. Most of the ones I have come up with sound like shallow [...]

The status of Sonic Youth has remained in question since members Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announced their split after 27 years of marriage. Recently, guitarist Lee Ranaldo [...]

Taking indie garage compositions, punk’s harmonies — or lack thereof — and fusing them with odd forms psychedelic rock comes Ceremony’s new album Zoo. It’s [...]

Our definitive list returns! Featuring chart-topping albums, some returning veterans, and a few surprise upstarts. Join us as we count down the best albums of the year.

Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth have separated after a 27-year marriage. The couple have played in Sonic Youth since 1981, and were [...]

There isn’t the smallest hint of pretension in Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks’ new album. From Malkmus’s quirky lyrics to the laid-back instrumentation, there’s a [...]

Exclaim reports (via P4k) that on October 1st at the Toronto Underground Cinema,  a group of musicians will take turns covering Nirvana’s biggest hit “Smells Like [...]

Verbicide’s Chad Elder was on hand to snap some incredible pics of the performers and the rowdy crowd.

If I were to play a word association game with you and I started with “hardcore,” you probably wouldn’t answer back with “rock opera.” Well, [...]

Beautiful photos of Thurston Moore and Kurt Vile in LA.

This album is not what one would expect from the vocalist/guitarist of Sonic Youth. For Demolished Thoughts, Thurston Moore has left behind the heavily reverberating [...]

For those who really want to know what Jay Reatard was like as a youngster, this deluxe reissue of his early album Teenage Hate — [...]

Demolished Thoughts, the new solo album from Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, was released on May 24th via Matador Records. Download the lead single “Circulation” below. Click [...]

Cold Cave’s sophomore album Cherish the Light Years marks a completely new sound for the band. Gone are the soft vocals of Caralee McElroy and [...]

On May 31st, Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder will release a solo album entitled Ukulele Songs, consisting entirely of solotracks performed by Vedder on the ukulele.