When thinking of the music of the ’80s, most people probably envision some extreme version of new wave squeaked out of synthesizers by a band

Formed in 1983 by songwriting principals singer Mark Mulcahy and guitarist Ray Neal, New Haven’s Miracle Legion crafted a finely tuned blend of jangly pop-rock, folk intricacies, and Van Morrison-esque soulfulness that by all rights should have grabbed the as of yet unrecognized alternative masses by the ears. Indeed, though they couldn’t get a record review without at least a mention of REM, they never …

That the Delgados were underappreciated during the band’s existence is only further underscored by how infrequently you hear the Scottish quartet’s name

I’m not so predisposed to luddism as to tell you that things were better in the days before the internet put a gabillion superbytes of information at our

Though its heyday lasted just a few years, the so-called shoegaze movement of the early ’90s has continued to have a lasting effect on music

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Although these days the term has been rendered virtually meaningless, there once was a time when “indie” held a good deal of cultural currency in

If you’re at all familiar with the idiosyncratic musical output that emerged from Cleveland in the ’70s and which has since been labeled as proto-punk, you

As I’m sure is the case with many people, there are albums whose songs have become so intertwined with my memories from a specific moment in time

Between movies (the biopic Control and Grant Gee’s 2007 Joy Division documentary), tours by Peter Hook & The Light, a new New Order album