"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 ...

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 ...

Eleanor Halls is a writer covering music, books, film and TV, as well as co-host of chart-topping pop culture podcast Straight Up. Eleanor was previously The Telegraph's associate culture editor and ...

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 ...

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 ...

And in many of these songs, if you listen closely to the lyrics, you'll hear references to "drank", "lean" or "Barr" — all nicknames for codeine cough syrup, a drug of choice for many in the hip-hop ...

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 ...