In his later years, Nashville-based outlaw country legend Chris Gantry has experienced a resurgence with assistance from the community surrounding Chicago indie fixture Drag City Records. In 2017, Drag City reissued Gantry's lost album At The House Of Cas... See more
A few weeks back, Brooklyn's Bazooka Fest announced their very cool 2026 lineup topped by scrappy Ohio indie favorites Cloud Nothings and the reunited Times New Viking. Today, that lineup has been expanded. Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields, recently... See more
The experimental rock band Shearling, like Alex Kent and Sylvie Simmons' prior outfit Sprain, have an often extreme approach to music that inspires fierce devotion and revulsion. But whether you love them or hate them, hopefully we can all agree they're g... See more
Pavement have been working their way across America over the past week and a half, playing a short summer tour that suggests their reunion will continue on a small scale in perpetuity, which rules. That tour coincided with my family vacation, which does n... See more
Ned Collette has been kicking around some of the most potent corners of the underground for decades now. The Australian-born, Berlin-based singer-songwriter got his start in the instrumental post-rock band City City City but quickly moved on to wide-reach... See more