Modest Mouse is an easy band to take for granted. Emerging from the Pacific Northwest twenty years ago, it's perhaps tempting to consider them just another "indie rock" band buoyed by Nirvana's lucky…   Read Story »

Wrangling with the history of any five-decade long institution is an inherently thorny business, but the Rolling Stones' story is particularly challenging. Of the roughly five distinct periods that…   Read Story »

We like to talk about artists' contradictory impulses, but with Björk, it's more apt to talk about unities. In a career that's nearing its fourth decade, she's coupled many of the major dualities:…   Read Story »

On "My Generation," Roger Daltrey famously proclaims, "I hope I die before I get old." It was 1965: Pete Townshend wrote the lyrics just as he was turning 20. Forty-eight years later, neither the…   Read Story »

Sleater-Kinney: the name suggests a joint sociological survey, or perhaps a university residence hall. Turns out it's the Lacey, WA street on which the band held practices. It's a fitting name for a…   Read Story »

Next month, Darkthrone will release The Underground Resistance, their 16th studio LP (or 15th, depending on how you catalog these things). It's been 26 years since their formation (as Black Death),…   Read Story »

Which is more amazing: that 2013 marks 30 years of the Flaming Lips as a functioning concern, or that it heralds the 23rd year of their partnership with Warner Bros. Records? It's difficult to judge.…   Read Story »

For a band that lasted only five years and released only four official full-length albums, the Smiths' catalog is a nightmare to untangle. The 70 or so songs the band eventually issued were…   Read Story »

My favorite photograph of Neurosis is the one posted on their Wikipedia entry. It's a grainy shot of the band performing in Seattle in 2008. You can make out the band members, but only just. The…   Read Story »

Last year in the U.K., Carol Morley released Dreams Of A Life, a documentary about a woman who died in her North London apartment and was not found for three years. No one came looking. Police found…   Read Story »