alt rock

MiniDisc favorites and more.

Prince Rama’s Nimai Larson thinks J. Mascis sounds heartbroken on Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not — and she has the perfect cure.

The new Alt-J album finds hope for a new generation of kids no longer in thrall to rock & roll’s clichés of attitude and self-destruction.

Sometimes it’s not the band that changed, it’s you. And sometimes, the band is just out of ideas.

“I wanna move my world/I wanna move my body.” — Cibo Matto, “Déjà Vu”