Engaging and intelligent, the Dismemberment Plan emerged from Washington DC in the early ’90s, playing a unique and infectious brand of pop-savvy post-punk in the tradition of the Buzzcocks, Gang of Four and Fugazi while occasionally straying into dub and reggae territory. Their songs marry angular guitar and keyboard lines to tight, complex rhythm tracks…
An often-great band with an awkward name, Death Cab for Cutie is, depending on which side of the fence you’re on, either a brilliant purveyor of sublime indie-pop…or everything that’s wrong with emo. To be sure, the Seattle (by way of Bellingham, Washington) quartet wears its rainy, Northwestern origins on vintage-shirt sleeves, with songs that…
In the first half of the ’00s, thanks to the Constantines, Unicorns and New Pornographers (to name a few), the international indie rock audience finally began to wake up to the long-thriving Canadian scene. In 2004, Arcade Fire became one of the most warmly received and widely celebrated Montreal acts in some time. Propping up…
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