A lot has changed since Codeine broke up in 1994, not long after the release of its second full-length, The White Birch. Similar groups like Low, Red House Painters, Bedhead, and Seam helped ...

Say something once — why say it again? That’s what David Byrne asked us on Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” and what New York band Codeine asked itself 23 years ago, when bassist-singer-songwriter ...

When Codeine released the Frigid Stars LP in 1990, the New York City band single-handedly invented what would later — somewhat cloyingly — become known as "slowcore." Predating influential albums by ...

I hear banjo and fiddle and stomp box and I admit that my mind automatically goes to Bluegrass but not the kind of Bluegrass that deals with addiction or the end of the world. Dana Immanuel is an ...