Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, “college rock,” and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new ...

Roasting alive in London’s concrete oven in the hottest May day since records began, attention constantly waylaid by warnings of incoming climate-induced societal collapse, lends an added intensity to ...

1973 stands out as one of rock’s most bewildering and exhilarating years, a moment when experimentation collided with ambition across genres. Prog rock was reaching labyrinthine extremes, from King ...

The human colony on Tau Ceti IV has been abandoned for half a century, as far as anyone can tell. The only exports leaving the planet are those nabbed by Runners in mechanical bodies, like fruit ...

A Bleak King Cometh is like a molotov cocktail casually tossed into the stave church of black metal orthodoxy. There might be tremolo-picked riffs, gnashed teeth and blastbeats aplenty, but the trio ...

Rock history is littered with copycats. But some bands just sound like they landed from another dimension. These are the acts who didn’t follow trends – they invented new ones. They bent genres, ...

Forever ensnared in a love-fued between 1800s literature and modern gaming, Eman Fatima tries her best to appease both her hobbies by tapping away at her keyboard and writing about her favorite games ...

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...

With her seventh album as the Weather Station, singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman gets dangerously close to making the 2020s version of Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark that so many modern indie artists ...

See The FADER's top 50 songs of 2024. Every album on our year-end list has a fearlessness about it. Over and over this year, while the world raged outside, our favorite musicians ventured into new ...