A lot has changed since Codeine broke up in 1994, not long after the release of its second full-length, The White Birch. Similar groups like Low, Red House Painters, Bedhead, and Seam helped ...

Say something once — why say it again? That’s what David Byrne asked us on Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” and what New York band Codeine asked itself 23 years ago, when bassist-singer-songwriter ...

The New York band Codeine existed from 1989 to 1994, playing carefully-crafted, soul-crushingly romantic rock songs at tempos so deliberate that critics at the time called the music “slowcore.” ...

Even before Sub Pop struck gazillions gold when punk rock broke in 1991 with Nevermind, the Seattle label was abiding by and stamping its merch with its tongue-in-cheek, yet notorious (and now ...

Long after their 90s heyday, bands such as Codeine and Duster are finding new audiences in thrall to their slow, sad vision of guitar music. Veterans explain the scene’s angst and idealism ‘We were ...

Things seem to be always getting faster. The jump cuts introduced on early MTV seem about as rapid-fire as a bingo game these days, while the flood of new bands that jammed everyone’s dinky radars ...

When Codeine released the Frigid Stars LP in 1990, the New York City band single-handedly invented what would later — somewhat cloyingly — become known as "slowcore." Predating influential albums by ...

The new project from the Fratellis' frontman tries to sound like 'John Barry playing with a rock'n'roll band' Hometown: Glasgow. The lineup: Jon Fratelli (guitar, vocals), Lou Hickey (lead vocals), ...

Scrapped and shelved until now, Dessau mirrors a particularly fraught moment for the slowcore band. When Codeine released the Frigid Stars LP in 1990, the New York City band single-handedly invented ...

Following the Frigid Stars LP, slowcore trio Codeine went to Harold Dessau Recording studio in New York City in 1992. Pictured here, left to right: Stephen Immerwahr, Chris Brokaw and John Engle. When ...