Ask Boards of Canada to make a My Bloody Valentine record, and you might end up with a product sounding something like France's M83.
During the early 2000s -- when the Pixies' "rediscovery age" raged through the indie rock scene -- thousands of critics and music fans were pointing admiring fingers their way and claiming they were the progenitors of modern indie rock.
Spring is a season of emergence and renewal around the globe, but here at the University it has some unique connotations: the return of public exposure on the Lawn, boozing it up at horse races and the Salmagundi Film Festival. Since its conception 12 years ago, Salmagundi has been helping to spread interest in student filmmaking at the University.
Why? is the project of Yoni Wolf, previous member of surrealist hip-hop group cLOUDEAD, that began as his solo effort and has evolved into a full-fledged band over the span of three full-lengths and several EPs.
When a band breaks up and one of its members decides to continue on with a solo career in the music industry, there is a certain level of expectation Mr. Solo must live up to.
I interviewed Stephen Malkmus -- ex-Pavement frontman, indie-rock poster boy and U.Va. graduate -- Monday during a conference call with several other school newspapers.
California's Xiu Xiu has been making their original brand of indie-pop since their formation in 2000.
It's difficult to read an album review of Canada's Black Mountain without hearing a plethora of 30-year-old band names mentioned.
