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 15: Radiohead's OK Computer
$12.95Seemingly granted 'classic album' status within days of its release in 1997, OK Computer transformed Radiohead from a highly promising rock act into The Most Important Band in the World ñ a label the band has been burdened by (and has fooled around with) ever since. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 16: The Replacements' Let It Be
$12.95One of the greatest moments of College Rock in the 1980s, Let It Be had a huge impact on the fans who fell under its spell. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 22: R.E.M.'s Murmur
$14.95R.E.M.'s debut album, released in 1983, was so far removed from the prevailing trends of American popular music that it still sounds miraculous and out of time today. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 23: Jeff Buckley's Grace
$10.95The power and influence of Grace increases with each passing year. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 31: The Pixies' Doolittle
$12.95The Pixies have had a career unlike any other in alternative rock, disappearing as a not-quite-next-big-thing only to become gods in absentia. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 33: The Stone Roses
$14.95Alex Green places the Stone Roses within the ecstasy-enhanced playground that was the late 80s Manchester scene and theorizes about what could have been had they maintained the brilliance of this peak performance. Learn More -
33 1/3 Volume 36: My Bloody Valentine's Loveless
$10.95My Bloody Valentine's LOVELESS is one of the most revered albums of the 1990s. Highly influential, shrouded in mystery, it has - so far - been an impossible album to follow up for its chief creator, Kevin Shields. 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 -
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 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
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