Arnold Pan

None of the musical underground's ever-multiplying genres is so singly identified with one band as post-rock is with Tortoise. Since the mid-'90s, indie hipsters and cutting-edge types have indiscriminately applied the tag to anything vaguely improvisational, proggy and/or instrumental, but post-rock usually boils down to the experimentation of a handful...

When you become intractably identified as "formerly of" and your new band is relentlessly mentioned as a "side project," it's not easy to make a name for yourself -- just ask Looper's Stuart David. A founding member of cult darlings Belle and Sebastian, the mild-mannered David was sometimes mistaken for...

Five years ago, back when Sleater-Kinney was just starting out, the song "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" gave the band a bold statement of purpose that couldn't help but be noticed. Blaring out the title more like a proclamation than a chorus, co-founders Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker made...