Centered around Calvin Johnson and his label K, early North American indie pop was proudly rudimentary; Johnson’s own band, Beat Happening, used whatever materials were at its disposal, like yogurt containers, to make clumsy, sentimental rock songs. By the early ’90s, K was at the ...
Creating your wedding playlist? Here are the best wedding songs compiled by professional DJs and The Knot's music editors. to build your must-play list.
The new songs reflect on her romances in a raw and honest way. The indie-rock singer does not shy away from exploring the pain and anger surrounding life's nadirs, taking inspiration from '90s acoustic rock Eliot Smith to the present-day breakup ballads of Taylor Swift. See what is ...
The new songs reflect on her romances in a raw and honest way. The indie-rock singer does not shy away from exploring the pain and anger surrounding life's nadirs, taking inspiration from '90s acoustic rock Eliot Smith to the present-day breakup ballads of Taylor Swift. Photo: Halsey ...
When he wasn’t stewarding Nirvana’s Nevermind, enigmatic producer Butch Vig spent the first half of the ’90s stripping pop for parts, reworking songs by Nine Inch Nails, EMF, and Depeche Mode and leaving just their core vocals intact. Perhaps it’s unsurprising that when Vig ...
A fierce, fuzzy highlight from do-everything indie rocker Jay Som’s excellent sophomore albumAnak Ko, “Superbike” is among the year’s most immediately imagistic songs. It’s sunset and warm wind, closure and catharsis. It’s “going 80 in the night” without worrying about the destinat...
One of the sweetest gifts of 2018 was the foundation of boygenius, the all-too-perfect supergroup of indie singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. Their self-titled, six-track EP’s magnum opus is its second track, “Me & My Dog,” which plays magically into each...
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Performing songs through the decades of non-stop pop, rock, party, disco funk, soul, indie, and Britpop classics with a huge repertoire jam-packed with the best music available. They are a standout act, admired for their unrivalled chemistry onstage, their exciting and engaging live performan...
Born in Marshall, North Carolina, Arthur Lee "Red" Smiley was a significant figure in bluegrass music. As the guitarist and vocalist of the duo Reno & Smiley, his collaborations with Don Reno produced classic songs like "I Know You're Married" and "Banjo Signal." Red Smiley's distinctive...