INDIE
This genre used to be called "underground," then "progressive", then "alternative rock" then "indie rock" and now it's just called "indie". And really, it's not a genre.
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33 1/3 Volume 85: Portishead's Dummy
$12.95This is a thoroughly researched exploration of one of the most original, unexpected, and durable British albums of the 1990s. An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's "Dummy" was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own potential. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 76: Radiohead's Kid A
$12.95It was virtually impossible to ignore Radiohead's KID A when it was released in early October of 2000. But the album was more than just a ten-track collection of songs written by five musicians from Oxfordshire, more than the "weird" follow-up to the critics' fashionable go-to record of choice, OK COMPUTER, more than what the VILLAGE VOICE described as "the biggest, warmest recorded go-fuck-yourself in recent memory." KID A was an event. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 72: Pavement's Wowee Zowee
$14.95Pavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis. They mixed the tracks and recorded overdubs in New York. They took a step back and assessed the material. It was a wild scene. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 69: The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs
$14.95Part manifesto, part publicity stunt, part limited edition object (at least in its ridiculously miniscule initial pressing), 69 LOVE SONGS is also a survey of recent popular culture, high and low. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 68: Flaming Lips' Zaireeka
$10.95ZAIREEKA is the anti-headphone and the anti-mp3. It purposely makes the two biggest developments in end-user music in the last 30 years irrelevant. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 63: Elliott Smith's XO
$10.95This book focuses on the genius of Smith's 1998 debut that remains his defining album. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 5: The Smiths' Meat Is Murder
$12.95A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 59: Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen
$14.95GENTLEMEN is fraught with the psychological warfare, bedroom drama, Catholic guilt, reprehensible deception and shame that coincide with relationships gone seriously wrong. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 50: Belle And Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister
$10.95At the time of its release in 1996, If You're Feeling Sinister was a romantic and defiantly independent artifact - a fully formed, pristine seashell of an album quietly washed ashore, waiting to be discovered by anyone who cared to look. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 48: PJ Harvey's Rid Of Me: A Story
$10.95This collection of stories is neither interpretation nor explanation of PJ Harvey's seminal album of the same name. Nor are Schatz's 14 chapters "covers" of the tracks, although each is based on a song from the album. Learn More
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