After the stripped-back indie folk of 2015’s Carrie and Lowell, Sufjan Stevens returns to a primarily experimental palette of sounds on his eighth studio album The Ascension. The hallmarks of Stevens’ 20-year career remain as...
England’s punk saviours IDLES return with album number three, bursting straight out of the cannon with defiant opening track War. Urgent guitars weave in and out on the propulsive Mr. Motivator, vocalist Joe Talbot snarling and...
Following last year’s opulent All Mirrors, the latest from Angel Olsen features some of the songs from that record in a striking new light. In these solo performances, Olsen – armed with just her voice and a guitar – confronts...
In Bright Eyes’ 25-year history, the band, and in particular its founder Conor Oberst, have become synonymous with sincere, straight-from-the-heart indie rock. It’s certainly hard to listen to Bright Eyes without acknowledging...
After two acclaimed records, Bully’s Alicia Bognanno rewrites her story and gains a newfound clarity among the distortion and fuzz. A previously buried jubilation transforms the band’s sound, with Bognanno’s voice sounding...