My Bloody Valentine

The drums of "Reflection of the Television", off 2009's Forget the Night Ahead, starts its slow dirge; the aching beauty of the acoustic/electric slide guitar sounds on "Cold Days from the Birdhouse" from the band's 2007 debut, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters , make you melt right away; and on its latest, No One Can Ever Know , lead track "Alphabet" sounds like a possessed monosynth booting up. Read More

You might think that the London-based quartet Trailer Trash Tracys have a rather silly band name. Read More

Utilitarian is the fifteenth Napalm Death LP, and 2011 marked the band's 30th year in existence. Read More

I'm certainly no black metal purist (I'm not even that drawn to the genre), but records like Souvenirs d'un autre monde and Écailles de Lune flew in the face of how I had experienced black metal. Read More

In the mid-'90s, when "hell froze over" and our parents' generation paid exorbitant prices for Eagles tickets, we chuckled about how uncool it was to live in the past. Read More

Underscore surveys undervalued artists, scenes, and eras of the musical past. Read More

you just might be the perfect fit for Coachella 2012! Read More

London duo The Big Pink blends textures that harken back to the glory days of shoegaze, futuristic electronics melding with pop beats and thunderous noise. Read More

Last fall marked the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind. Read More

The just-announced 2012 Coachella lineup is loaded with big names like Radiohead and The Black Keys, but it's also stacked with reunions. Read More