Nothing on mainstream radio sounded like Beck's "Loser" when it dropped in 1994. Thirty years later, we explain why, look at its impact on the... Beck's 'Loser' at 30 and the golden age of slacker ...

Northampton-based garage pop and indie rock trio Hammydown excels at tapping into youthful angst with charming, sarcastic glee on its debut five-song extended play recording, “Pizzaface,” released ...

Max Freeland says his band Pardoner often gets called “slacker rock,” but he’s unsure if that’s a compliment. “Whenever someone writes us up, even when it’s a nice review,” and slacker rock gets ...

The FADER’s 2024 Songs of the Summer bracket is divided into four March Madness-style regionals, and the winner of the Slacker was MJ Lenderman’s “She’s Leaving You” Below, Cady Siregar explains why ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. “I love you Mac!” was a common refrain shouted by the audience members ...

Pavement certainly planted some type of “slacker” flag in the 90s. Whether or not they were the original “slackers” — they weren’t — is irrelevant, but that label has often evoked that band. Today the ...

Nap Eyes sound like the kind of slacker-rock band that plays while slumped over on half-folded futons. But even in its quietest moments, Thought Rock Fish Scale is an album brimming with passion and ...