In music, the term Southern Gothic has been applied to a who’s-who of artists who are anything but Southern, ranging from Australia’s Nick Cav…

Liz Phair won a loyal group of fans in the late 1990s with sassy, original indie albums like her parody of The Rolling Stones, Exile in Guyvil…

When it comes to music, America’s corporate monoliths seem to be moving in lockstep these days.

Sean Bonnette is many things, but aloof is clearly not one of them.

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In 2014, Jamie Stewart told the Indy that his Xiu Xiu project was dead. Yet the ensuing seven years were among the San José band’s most prolif…

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Julien Baker may be the youngest of the three women in folkie supergroup boygenius, but was first to release a debut album in 2015, at age 20,…

Lana Del Rey’s book/CD release of poems unleashed a torrent of spoken-word and literary recorded works in late 2020. The best of show goes to …