Long after their 90s heyday, bands such as Codeine and Duster are finding new audiences in thrall to their slow, sad vision of guitar music. Veterans explain the scene’s angst and idealism ‘We were ...

"Why does so much 'happy music' make people want to rip their eyeballs out?" Credit: David Michael Curry Chris Brokaw: It made it more insular. Moving out West felt daunting and I don’t think I ...

On Sunday, April 17, the centerpiece story in the Arts and Entertainment section of The New York Times was a story about how, via the Slim Thug/Mike Jones/Paul Wall hit single “Still Tippin’,” Houston ...

Nearly 20 years after their dissolution, slow-core greats Codeine have announced their return. The original lineup of the group have just revealed plans to play at next May's All Tomorrow's Parties ...

Winter has announced a run of West Coast tour dates supporting Codeine. The tour kicks off in early December, a few weeks after Winter wraps up an East Coast tour supporting Geese, now underway. “I'm ...

Things seem to be always getting faster. The jump cuts introduced on early MTV seem about as rapid-fire as a bingo game these days, while the flood of new bands that jammed everyone’s dinky radars ...

Codeine is primed for a noisy spring. The heavy, turgid Nineties rockers have reunited in support of the rerelease of their influential catalog and will hit the road on an American and European tour.