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News

With the release date of her new album approaching, Caroline Polachek reveals another track from...

Tom Verlaine died today at the age of 73. Singer, guitarist and composer, he was one of the main...

British singer Arlo Parksappears with a new single. "Weightless" arrives with the...

The National announced the successor to the critically acclaimed I Am Easy To Find (2019). First...

Van Conner, bassist for the Screaming Trees, died yesterday at the age of 55. The musician's...

Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker continue to bring their boygenius project to life....

Artists

Hardcore punk band formed in 2001 in Toronto, Canada, Fucked Up gained notoriety in 2009 when their album The Chemistry of Common Life won...

We Are Scientists was formed in 2000 in Berkeley, California, but in 2001 moved to New York with vocalist and guitarist Keith Murray,...

Canadian multi-instrumentalist Mac DeMarco released his first independent works under the pseudonym Makeout Videotape. In 2012, already as...

The English band The Subways was formed in 2002 in Hertfordshire by brothers Billy Lunn (guitar and vocals) and Josh Morgan (drums) and...

The name Belle & Sebastian came from a French cartoon about a boy and his puppy. The formation of the group started in 1995, in Glasgow...

Weyes Blood is the stage name of American singer-songwriter Natalie Laura Mering, born June 11, 1988 in Santa Monica, California. Her music...

In 2006, after leaving The Concretes, a group in which she remained for ten years as lead vocalist, Victoria Bergsman created the solo...

Influenced by genres such as post-punk, hardcore punk and riot grrrl, Canadian band White Lung was formed in 2006 in Vancouver by Mish Way...