Northampton-based garage pop and indie rock trio Hammydown excels at tapping into youthful angst with charming, sarcastic glee on its debut five-song extended play recording, “Pizzaface,” released ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Albums news every morning. Dinosaur Jr have always worked hard at sounding lazy. Loudly indolent riffs and drawled vocals placed the ...

Pavement certainly planted some type of “slacker” flag in the 90s. Whether or not they were the original “slackers” — they weren’t — is irrelevant, but that label has often evoked that band. Today the ...

This burgeoning post-rock group just released its new album Mudglimmer. Recorded at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, home to the Sun Ra collection, amongst other jazz greats, the album is a ...

Dinosaur Jr frontman J Mascis has always been a hot property, so much so that Kurt Cobain tried to get him to join Nirvana, ...

With another terrific album in the not-too-distant past, Dinosaur Jr continues an almost unprecedented roll into its third decade and — undoubtedly — its third “version” of the band. With Marshall ...

Rouen five-piece Wavepool show plenty of promise on their debut EP, 'Crayola', drawing from the rich pool of influence from ...

Through the nineties and early aughts, slackers were a cornerstone of indie cinema. You remember the type: quirky cashiers or failed musicians who smoked weed and waxed poetic about pop culture and ...

“It was an attempt to try to make more money by selling music instead of not selling music,” says Dapwell. He says that he thinks the commercialization of this album was necessary in order to profit ...

The lights are off and the sun is setting. The members of Seattle band Great Grandpa sit semicircle in the living room of guitarist Dylan Hanwright’s wooded Beacon Hill home. Hanwright’s two cats move ...