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 ...

Slint have announced that their 1991 album Spiderland will be reissued. A remastered version of the post-rockers' second album will be available on April 15 on CD and heavyweight vinyl. The set will ...

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 ...

Slint’s breakthrough record was released in April 1999. Constructed around sombre, geologically-paced drums and guitar, and fortified texturally with little more than subdued samples clipped from ...

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 ...

The Louisville band's 1991 classic, now the subject of a lavish reissue, deserves reconsideration as a work of haunting beauty and surprising warmth. During its original run in the late '80s and early ...

“It’s only been in the last few months that I’ve realized Spiderland is an enduring record. I kept waiting for it to be forgotten,” remarks David Pajo. The Slint guitarist, who has agreed to give us ...

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 ...

In March 1991, Melody Maker printed an album review written by Steve Albini – at the time best known as the former frontman of Chicago noise trio Big Black, though gaining recognition for his work ...

If you Google the words “Brian McMahan,” you’ll wade through Web pages devoted to a religious speaker, a gold-medal-winning Canadian rower and a wedding photographer. What you won’t come across is the ...

If the members of Slint really had visited the fortune teller spoken of in hushed tones by Brian McMahan in ‘Breadcrumb Trail’, the opening song of their second album and masterpiece Spiderland, and ...

During its original run in the late '80s and early '90s, Slint never reached a huge audience: Its music was, by its nature, too dark and strange and sprawling. But its influence has stretched for ...