The Strokes' debut album Is This It was first released on 7/30/01. To help us celebrate this 10th Anniversary, we asked some of our favorite indie bands to cover each track. The resulting collection,…   Read Story »

Deafheaven's Roads To Judah came up a few times in the comments of my Top 26 Metal Albums Of 2011 So Far. With reason. The San Francisco group's gorgeous 4-song, 38-minute full-length debut blends…   Read Story »

We recently posted L.A. "doom-folk" songwriter Chelsea Wolfe's "Mer" along with Richard Phillips' "Moses"-scored Sasha Grey short. Here's the mesmerizing, atmospherically deep "Movie Screen," another…   Read Story »

We called Burzum-covering, PJ Harvey-evoking "doom-folk" chanteuse Chelsea Wolfe someone to watch in 2011. Please do: In August, the Californian's following 2010's excellent homespun The Grime And…   Read Story »

It's not news that popular indie rock got a bit darker in 2010. Look no further than regular topics of conversation around here -- Zola Jesus, CREEP, Cold Cave, Salem, Tamaryn, Blessure Grave,…   Read Story »

The concluding post on this year's SXSW comes with this, a break from the norm for us and likely for you as well. In addition to identifying the bands we were most excited about at this year's SXSW,…   Read Story »

Come March every year, the same questions are asked, retreaded thought pieces get pitched: What does it mean to have a music industry festival in the decrepit climate of 2011? Does anyone actually…   Read Story »

We'll be in Austin in a couple weeks. Nobody likes a lazy non-contributor, so we've teamed up with one of our favorite labels Sacred Bones and one of Austin's greatest institutions Chaos In Tejas to…   Read Story »

L.A.'s Chelsea Wolfe composes fractured, noisy, abstract, experimental and exploratory gothy doom-folk that reminds me a bit of Portal Of Sorrow, Marissa Nadler's collaboration with Xasthur. Maybe…   Read Story »