Welcome to a week devoted to Slowcore… arguably the “Alternative to Alternative music” that grew up in the shadow of Grunge, just as Teenage Rebellion was being commodified in the early 1990s. There ...

LA slowcore vets Idaho have announced their first album in 13 years, Lapse, the followup to 2011’s You Were A Dick. It comes out May 31 via Arts & Crafts (pre-order). It was made by founder/leader ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Duster has had quite the second life. The San Jose-born band from the turn-of-the-century experienced a serious resurgence in popularity the past few years that led to their back ...

Last year, we detailed five fantastic post-rock bands that scoff at the term post-rock and, more or less, pissed on the very thought of being tagged as such. With Luna’s Dean Wareham and Britta ...

The New York band Codeine existed from 1989 to 1994, playing carefully-crafted, soul-crushingly romantic rock songs at tempos so deliberate that critics at the time called the music “slowcore.” ...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, after two decades of music steadily getting faster and faster via punk, hardcore and speed metal, things started to slow way down. On the heavier end of things, ...

“Snakes” is the final salvo before the release of Lapse on May 31 via Arts & Crafts, the resounding return of slowcore pioneers IDAHO with their first new album in more than 13 years. Led by Laurel ...

“It’s amazing to me how much love there is for Acetone out in the world, especially considering how few records we actually sold at the time,” says Mark Lightcap, guitarist for ’90s slowcore greats ...

In the early 1990s, Duluth, Minnesota, was just another U.S. city conforming to the punk and grunge movement of the time. Perhaps the last thing anyone expected to hear coming out of the northern ...

Kyle Bates is a full-blown audio nerd. He teaches recording classes at the California Institute of the Arts, where he’s also pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree, and holds a master’s degree in ...

This rising Oklahoma City-based four-piece is reminiscent of groups like Duster and Fog Lake with their swirling lo-fi guitars and raw analogue sound. Having already played alongside burgeoning rock ...