You have to try in rock despite what you’ve recently heard on your alt rock radio. The rise of slacker rock acts like Mac DeMarco and Kurt Vile has communicated a more laid-back approach to the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. “I love you Mac!” was a common refrain shouted by the audience members ...

The FADER’s 2024 Songs of the Summer bracket is divided into four March Madness-style regionals, and the winner of the Slacker was MJ Lenderman’s “She’s Leaving You” Below, Cady Siregar explains why ...

Northampton-based garage pop and indie rock trio Hammydown excels at tapping into youthful angst with charming, sarcastic glee on its debut five-song extended play recording, “Pizzaface,” released ...

Pavement certainly planted some type of “slacker” flag in the 90s. Whether or not they were the original “slackers” — they weren’t — is irrelevant, but that label has often evoked that band. Today the ...

Back in January, Chicago slacker-rock four-piece Post Child released the excellent Wax Wings, a fuzzy homage to alt-pop’s 1990s heyday. Today, the Reader has an exclusive premiere of the video for ...

Toronto indie-rock band Packs formed just a few years ago, but they’ve already caught the attention of fans and critics with their rough-around-the-edges pop sensibility. Madeline Link, who founded ...

The dream of the ’90s is alive in Evan Dando. While seemingly all of his Boston alt-rock peers have either adapted to the modern music landscape’s hectic pace or gotten day jobs, the Lemonheads leader ...