Slint’s ‘Spiderland’ and self-titled EP are available on black vinyl in our store. Once upon a time in Louisville, a few hardcore kids were getting tired of the genre so they formed a new band and ...

When Slint walked onstage as a five-piece Friday evening, the sun was hot on the back of about 14,000 necks crowding right field of Chicago’s Union Park, a youth-league baseball field four blocks from ...

For the Morning Edition Song Project, we've asked musicians to capture life in the era of COVID-19 by writing an original song that describes this turbulent moment. When we contacted Colin Meloy of ...

With just six songs and a running time under 40 minutes, the 1991 album “Spiderland” by the quartet known as Slint is an unlikely landmark. Yet the record, with its clear ringing guitar sounds stabbed ...

Sat March 12, Showbox, 8 pm, sold out. Fear the worst. Because bad things usually happen when good bands reunite. Even when great bands get back together, the results can make the most faithful fans ...

There was an episode of the T.V. Series Gilmore Girls where Rory ditches school and takes a bus to New York to visit Jess, the bad boy that she won’t admit to be being totally into. When she finds him ...

The somber back-lit figures were nobody’s idea of rock stars. The singer faced sideways to the audience and hardly spoke between songs, except to jokingly admonish the audience for not heckling loud ...

Some say the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, ended an era of innocence, prosperity, and peace — a little stretch of time, fondly remembered, that we like to call the nineties. Fair enough.

On the heels of a surprise 2005 reunion, Slint is regrouping for a spring/summer tour during which it will perform its iconic 1991 album "Spiderland" in its entirety. The group is also working on… By ...

When the DVD chronicling iconic indie rock act Slint's recent reunion tour hits stores at the end of the year, it will feature a piece of footage not even band members knew existed: a 1987… By ...

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According to a number of comments across the internet, David Pajo -- founding member of Slint-- intended to take his own life last night (Feb. 12), culminating it what appears to be a suicide note ...