Kim Shattuck started the Muffs in the early '90s as a reaction to the self-serious West Coast alternative music scene blowing up around her. “I was getting really bummed,” she remembered years later. “Stuff like the Red Hot…

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If he had less ambition and a lower tolerance for failure, Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins could be sipping Mai Tais with Mark McGrath on the deck of a '90s rock cruise right now, enjoying a life of royalty checks and low expectations.

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Heavy Lifter, the third album by Austin “pillow core” project Hovvdy, is a frothy Y.A. bildungsroman of a record, suspended in the moment between first discovery of love and first brush with heartbreak. Will Taylor and Charlie Martin…

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Catherine Polachek named her album Pang after the bursts of adrenaline that jolted her out of sleep. She describes this as an internal thing, the sudden shock of emotion that “ pricks you emotionally from the inside.” But it's…

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