We begin our discussion of the Faces, as we must, with "The Rod Conundrum" -- one of the thorniest in all of rock and roll lore. Cue the ESPN 30 For 30 voice over: "What if we told you that Rod…   Read Story »

Sebadoh were something of the “Beautiful Losers” of the ’90s indie scene. Lou Barlow emerged from Northamption hardcore act Deep Wound, and later Dinosaur Jr., having famously been…   Read Story »

In the 2005 film Junebug, Will Oldham's character works for a Chicago curator, on the lookout for "outsider artists" in the backwoods of North Carolina for a big city gallery. It's not a bad…   Read Story »

All Built To Spill songs exist on a continuum between two poles: snappy, twee-inflected pop songs and vast, mind-altering classic rock soundscapes. I've never been to Idaho, but I can't help…   Read Story »

In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2008, My Morning Jacket frontman and songwriter Jim James identified four artists he considered to be MMJ's "big-brother bands": Wilco, Björk, Radiohead, and…   Read Story »

When I was in high school, I had a friend, Trey, with a funny ritual. Whenever it was one of our mutual friend's birthdays, he would get everyone together for a surprise party, all of us crouching…   Read Story »

Though it is easy to imagine him recoiling in horror from the appellation, Dan Bejar is quintessentially a songwriter's songwriter. All through the back rooms of the world at night, admiring cohorts…   Read Story »

The January announcement that the Postal Service would be reuniting for this year's Coachella has been followed by snowballing PS news: a Give Up reissue, the celebration of the album's 10-year…   Read Story »

Emerging inauspiciously in 1993 with a raw, post-Pixies sound before plotting one of the most distinctively creative courses in indie rock, Spoon has made a career of ignoring rules and trends,…   Read Story »

Here, let's play a game. Try to imagine David Bowie's entire career as a single line (it's a long line). Our line follows him from song to song, album to album, through every character he's ever…   Read Story »