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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toronto indie-rock band Packs formed just a few years ago, but they’ve already caught the attention of fans and critics with their rough-around-the-edges pop sensibility. Madeline Link, who founded ...

Music journalist Simon Reynolds will chart the rise of shoegaze, slacker rock, and grunge in a new work Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994, to be published ...