One walking through the streets of New Jersey would not necessarily imagine Tris McCall’s brand of synth-driven, dance floor-conscious indie rock as a likely…

It’s been four long years since the last Shipping News record proper — the brilliant Very Soon and in Pleasant Company — but from…

There’s something downright unnerving about Dean Roberts’ Be Mine Tonight, a four-song, 35-minute glacier of an album. It’s not unnerving because it’s abrasive or…

There seems to a growing trend in indie rock where bands, tired of the noise emanating from their garages or basements, begin to make…

The latest full-length musical exploration from the New Jersey/New York ensemble Ui is called Answers. For those who won’t hear the disc until Southern…

For all the twists and turns of the last 30 years, the brilliant songs and the invigorating reinventions, there are a few things you’ve…

Every once in a rare while, after sifting through mountains of half-hearted indie-pop offerings and sophomoric verse-chorus-verse chatter, we music writers stumble upon a…