Category: BEST OF 2015

The second LP from this Sydney, Australia quartet—its members are identified only as Shogun (vocals), Law (guitar), Joe (bass) and

Has it really been nearly six years since Have One On Me? But it just stopped playing! (Have one on

That the Libertines—returning to the spotlight after imploding more than a decade ago—managed to record a new album, let alone

After a decade and a half of holding it down as indie’s resident maximalist (try finding a review of Illinois

Deafheaven is by no means the first metal band to combine the delicate and the brutal, but by god, the

Let’s be real: You are dead inside. You have been since the first Bush administration. You are a callous, unfeeling

“Gentle ... quiet ... careful ... measured ... stable ... ” The ambiguous string of adjectives that opens Low’s 11th

Sleater-Kinney did everything right with its comeback album, the trio’s first since 2005’s The Woods. Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker and

Not that there’s anything wrong with Robert Pollard’s solo LPs, but his band-centric collaborations seem to invigorate him, and working

In a recent interview with BOMB magazine, Jim O’Rourke recalled having to justify to his father his habit of rewatching

Despite having reformed six years ago to play occasional live gigs, the prospect of an entire album’s worth of new

I’ve spent a lot of time in the U.K. over the years, but I’ve never been to Sheffield. Having also

In the wild—that is, onstage, their preferred habitat—Screaming Females are a force of nature. Driven by Marissa Paternoster’s intimidating guitar

Dan Bejar has evolved from being a cranky, brilliant word guy to a sophisticated, brilliant bandleader, and the ch-ch-changes have