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To celebrate the release of Sarah Mary Chadwicks new album, Messages To God, the New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist has reworked some iconic album covers for The Music.

A new compendium of music Lou Barlow and John Davis created for the 1995 cult film Kids brings a piece of prescient indie rock experimentation—and sleeper hit “Natural One”—to streaming in full.

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Nearly 30 years after its debut, the iconic soundtrack is set to be reissued. Critic Charley Ruddell says, “The gritty, often hallucinatory compositions created by The Folk Implosion flawlessly embodied the spirit of the film.”

Featuring new music from Puddle of Mudd, Saliva and more

Lou Barlow and John Davis made tracks for the 1995 cultural flashpoint. They split after a 1999 LP, but reunited during the pandemic, and made plans to release more songs.

For our Track-by-Track feature, we go in-depth with an artist about each song on their new album. This week we are featuring of Shearwater's Fellow Travelers, and for the next two days we'll post commentary by frontman Jonathan Meiburg on each of the albu

In this interview on Sebadoh's Bakesale, Lou Barlow reflects on Eric Gaffney's departure from the band, Bakesale's lasting legacy, and how nothing would ever be as simple for Sebadoh again.

Sebadoh began in the mid-80s as an outlet for Lou Barlows home recordings away from Dinosaur Jr. These are the 12 essential tracks from their diverse catalog.

My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this M