No matter the kind of people in your circle of friends, it’s pretty normal to hear people talking about how there’s not much ...

This was a banner year for proof of that, and here’s 40 albums from the world of indie rock and alternative by artists who’ve been making music for at least 30 years, many of them for much longer. All ...

Nirvana's Nevermind has become only the ninth release to spend 700 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, and only the fourth ...

2024 proved that this is Knocked Loose’s world and that we are all just living in it, the brutally heavy, Grammy-nominated ...

Below are three very different approaches to crafting moody classics. First, Echo & the Bunnymen use hazy language and ...

Slim Dunlap, the second and final lead guitarist for the '80s/'90s alternative band the Replacements, died at age 73.

Because it was such a transitional year for us, the process of putting together our best albums of the year list was ...

I go to a lot of shows, so I expected this answer to take a lot of soul searching — but there was something unforgettable about this concert featuring local NPR Tiny Desk Contest-fave Jesus Gonzalez ...

The musical lineup: Teahouse (progressive alternative rock), Psychofluid (progressive doom sludge), Ichenen (alternative rock) and Alexa Murphy (“shadowy R&B Soul”). 7-11 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20. $10 in ...

Music is the gift that keeps giving. That’s why during the holiday gift-buying season, the options seemingly are endless, with an array of recently released titles from famous acts. In other ...

Our staff dove back into the last 12 months of music, applied their exacting standards and came up with these 10 albums as ...

Physicist Ciarán Cooling looks up to American geologist Harrison Schmitt, who trained the Apollo astronauts in geological ...