Matt Schild's posts

Smartphones are technological marvels that are rewiring culture on the most fundamental levels. Green energy…

The most exciting thing about Foals’ sophomore effort, 2010’s Total Life Forever, was how thoroughly the British…

Sociologists from the future, take heed: Everything you need to know about indie-rock culture awaits you here,…

On Kill My Blues, Corin Tucker does something she didn’t do much of on her first solo album: She rocks out. 2010’s 1,…

Several bands peddle the same reverb-and-hooks sound that The Raveonettes have been perfecting for about a decade…

For more than a decade, John Dwyer and Thee Oh Sees catered to a specific niche: the fertile crescent where rowdy…

Rocket From The Crypt fans who’ve been patiently waiting the past seven years for reunion news won’t know whether to…

Over the course of Liars’ career, it’s often seemed like the group abruptly changes its sound with every album. It’s…

It’s been a busy couple of years for Best Coast since the Pacific-loving act released its debut, Crazy For You. The…

After playing dress-up as sleazy trash-rockers on 2007’s Born Into This, dissonant nu-metal thugs on 2001’s Beyond…

Ever since his misbehavior became the stuff of rock legend—as chronicled in the documentary Dig!—Brian Jonestown…

There’s more than a little irony that Grinderman, a band that served as the wild and raw foil to the Bad Seeds’…

When Electric Six frontman Dick Valentine strapped on a light-up codpiece for his band’s debut video, “Danger! High…

It might be a little misleading to say Ceremony is getting soft in its old age. For one thing, the Bay Area band is…

With the squall of feedback, delay, reverb, and malfunctioning stomp-box sounds that filled The Twilight Sad’s first…

John K. Samson’s songwriting was the driving force behind four albums by Canadian indie-rock band The Weakerthans,…

The way Magic Cyclops tells it, he only ended up appearing on Fox’s American Idol because he thought he was getting…

Although it’s been fashionable in recent years for grizzled punk rockers to walk away from their half stacks and…

Although it’s been fashionable in recent years for grizzled punk rockers to walk away from their half stacks and…

Time is a luxury that up-and-coming bands don’t have, so after spending a year and a half recording its debut, last…