Long after their 90s heyday, bands such as Codeine and Duster are finding new audiences in thrall to their slow, sad vision of guitar music. Veterans explain the scene’s angst and idealism ‘We were ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life, the author closes his excellent history of the US underground of the 1980s with a condemnation of the music which came after. He decries the ...

Led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel, American Music Club began in San Francisco in 1982. Along with Galaxie 500 and Low, the band characterized what would become "slowcore," a style marked by its ...

Idaho have announced their first new album in 13 years, Lapse, which will be released in May. The Los Angeles slowcore band haven't put out a proper full-length since 2011's You Were A Dick, and ...

When Codeine released the Frigid Stars LP in 1990, the New York City band single-handedly invented what would later — somewhat cloyingly — become known as "slowcore." Predating influential albums by ...