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Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places

MAGNET’s Mitch Myers says all movie adaptations are equal, but some movie adaptations are more equal than others. He also

Though they’ve always lived on separate coasts and occupied different scenes, Mike Watt has always held J Mascis in high

For better or worse, Romeo Void will always be associated with the early days of MTV, where the film-noirish video

Ethan Gold’s life story has taken on a mythic hue. He was raised in San Francisco by his mother, Melissa

EG Vines has proven himself particularly adept at pairing sharp hooks with emotional candor. His latest single, however, funnels that

For nearly a decade, Wild Up has approached the music of Julius Eastman as something volatile, alive and worthy of

The Yea-Ming And The Rumours of a few years ago fed off the frantic motion of transition. Lately, though, the

At its core, Lisa Molinaro’s latest single is about stagnation—those stretches of time where momentum evaporates, change feels just out

Loss has always loomed over the music of the Huntress And Holder Of Hands. Led by MorganEve Swain, the Providence,

For more than two decades, Canadian singer/songwriter Spencer Krug has been one of indie rock’s most singular and unpredictable voices,

In the unruly tradition of the Replacements, CR & The White Lights often sound like a band that might implode

Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places

While Cult Canyon is a relatively new name in Chicago, Josh Chicoine has spent decades threading his way through the

Amid vinyl’s surprising resurgence, independent pressing plants have become just as vital as the labels and bands they serve. That’s

Camila Ortiz doesn’t treat songs as static objects. Within Otracami’s purview, they move, accumulate and spill over, absorbing fragments of

While it took some doing, Seattle’s Jaws Of Brooklyn have hit on exactly who they are: a stage-born identity that’s

Unlike many of its post-punk contemporaries, Drivin N Cryin never really went away. Over the past four decades, with a

Pete “Fij” Fijalkowski concedes that he’s felt like an outsider for most of his 57 years. “I’ve always quite liked

With each release, Glenn Donaldson continues to deepen the contrasting hues of his bruised indie pop. Over the past half-dozen

There’s something fitting about Rodney Crowell including a song about Leonard Cohen on a “lost” album. Both artists forged storied

Matt Koenig has always operated just outside the usual lanes. Raised in Pittsburgh and now living in Los Angeles, he’s