A little more than two years ago, I was thinking about placing a bid on a beat-up Fender Stratocaster listed on eBay for around $800. This wasn't just any Strat — it belonged toDavid Pajo, guitarist ...

Slint’s ‘Spiderland’ and self-titled EP are available on black vinyl in our store. Once upon a time in Louisville, a few hardcore kids were getting tired of the genre so they formed a new band and ...

From Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Cornel West to Green perennial Jill Stein, third party candidates are looking to upend the 2024 race.

When the modern Louisville music scene is discussed on a national scale, its essence and mythologies dissected, it doesn't take long for Slint to be mentioned. First two sentences, usually. Three, max ...

THERE'S NOTHING about Slint's story that presents itself as ideal fodder for a documentary. While the Louisville, Kentucky, band's taut and scintillating 1991 album Spiderland nearly rivals the Velvet ...

One of the best qualities of Breadcrumb Trail-- Lance Bangs' fantastic documentary on Slint, released earlier this year -- is the wealth of rare footage Bangs' unearthed, and how naturally it flows ...

With just six songs and a running time under 40 minutes, the 1991 album “Spiderland” by the quartet known as Slint is an unlikely landmark. Yet the record, with its clear ringing guitar sounds stabbed ...

Next month, Touch & Go records are releasing a new box set of alt-rock pioneers Slint’s second album Spiderland. The set includes a version of the album remastered by Bob Weston, previously unheard ...

Influential rock act Slint, whose brief career is documented in the film "Breadcrumb Trail." (Will Oldham) From the vanished band behind it to its seemingly placid cover art, Slint's "Spiderland" has ...

Like heavy metals in the water supply, the mid-1980s band Slint was the unnoticed additive that influenced the behavior of an entire musical movement. The pronounced soft/loud/soft dynamic, the ...

When Slint walked onstage as a five-piece Friday evening, the sun was hot on the back of about 14,000 necks crowding right field of Chicago’s Union Park, a youth-league baseball field four blocks from ...

You were a hired gun (for lack of a better term) for Interpol and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. How was the time you spent on tour with those groups? Did it compare with being in Zwan? It was so awesome, some ...