Fotocrime interview

Raw nerve: An interview with Fotocrime

Ryan Patterson discusses metal, tenderness and toxic masculinity.

Scott Hutchison

If Happiness Won’t Come to Me: On Scott Hutchison and Mental Illness

Earlier this month, I watched as strangers on social media used Twitter to help stop…

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Lester Bangs, Hanif Abdurraqib and a different kind of music criticism

A look at a more fascinating kind of music criticism, through the words of two different eras’ scribes.

More of the best psychedelic albums

10 More of the Best Psychedelic Albums

An appendix to our master list of essential psych gems.

Shiner The Egg

Shiner’s The Egg captured a band in pursuit of a noise

A look back at the final album from an under-heard, but highly ambitious band.

The best Angel Olsen songs

Greatest Hits: The best Angel Olsen songs

A 16-track guide to the singer/songwriter’s greatest moments.

Bambara interview 2018

No Escape: An interview with Bambara

Shadows, hometowns and fighting your own instruments come up in our conversation with the band.

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Pulp’s This Is Hardcore is still a shattering piece of work after 20 years

The album that killed Britpop loses none of its bite after two decades.

Essential Post-Britpop

10 Essential Post-Britpop tracks

10 tracks that carried Britpop’s aesthetic into a new era.

Blueprint: How Smart Went Crazy’s ‘Con Art’ broke from D.C. punk tradition

A curious, fragmented epic from one of Dischord’s most ambitious, but short-lived bands.

Beastie Boys bands that changed their sound

10 Bands That Changed Their Sound

A selection of artists who reinvented themselves in bold ways.

Palm interview 2018

Space out and see things: A conversation with Palm

Eve Alpert discusses the group’s synesthetic sound, t-shirts and foreign exchange students.

Essential Power Pop Albums Big Star

10 Essential Power Pop Albums

“Power” and “pop” aren’t exactly contradictions. Few people can look at someone like Taylor Swift…

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A guide to the complete albums of Jason Molina

On the 15th anniversary of Magnolia Electric Co., a look back at the singer/songwriter’s complete discography.

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10 One-Chorus Wonders

Ten songs where the hook-filled climax happens only once.

best Superchunk songs

Greatest Hits: Superchunk

The greatest moments from one of the best bands in indie rock.

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Shudder To Think created their own structures on Pony Express Record

The first in our series exploring influential post-hardcore records, starting with a groundbreaking punk anomaly.

The Worst Song Podcast

The Worst Song: Covers Edition

For years, Treble Editor Jeff Terich has been asking bands and artists, “what song do…