Formed by longtime friends whose goal was to create "serious guitar music," Mogwai did much more than that during their decades-long career. Their long, sweeping tracks and experiments in extreme dynamic shifts, both exemplified on 1999's debut album Young Team, built on Slint's legacy and helped define the sound of post-rock.

Ryley Walker is an accomplished fingerstyle guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Chicago whose music and evolution as an artist have proven mercurial.

Om Shout Out Louds senaste album Ease My Mind från 2017 andades stränder, amerikansk västkust och solnedgångar så är det kommande sjätte albumet House dess antidot. På det nya materialet är bandet frustrerade, längtar bort från vardagens gnat och drömmer om att smita ut genom bakdörren och börja om på nytt någon helt annanstans.

Generating a singular brand of noisy chaos, Swedish post-punk band Viagra Boys fuse pounding hard rock grooves, minimalist melodies, discordant guitar and sax, and howling vocals into an uncompromised volley of sound.