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

Each year, when looking back at the 12 months of music that have passed, it is always tempting to make a definitive qualitative statement. But whether or not 2015 was on the whole a good year for music is completely irrelavant. If the takeaway is one incredible record or a handful of good but not great albums, I’ll take the former every time. Anyway, I …

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Though his demeanor has seemingly lost some of its thorniness as he has aged, John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) has remained ever

Before it was associated with doofuses sporting beards and man-buns, being hip was something to which one aspired. It was a