Such Great Heights

The definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock―from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent―and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a g ...

The definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock―from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent―and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a generation
Maybe you caught a few exhilarating seconds of “Teen Age Riot” on a nearby college radio station while scanning the FM dial in your parents’ car. Maybe your friend invited you to a shabby local rock club and you ended up having a religious experience with Neutral Milk Hotel. Perhaps you were scandalized and tantalized upon sneaking Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville from an older sibling’s CD