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 ...

You just performed live as Codeine for the first time in over a decade. Though this isn’t the first time you’ve taken a lengthy break, what was it like revisiting this older material again? Chris ...

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

The members of Codeine were amused when writers started referring to their music as “slowcore.” They weren’t aware that their stark, emotive take on guitar-based rock even had a name. “I would say ...

The reunited New York slowcore band Codeine will get the Numero Group lavish reissue treatment. On May 9, the Chicago label will re-release their three Sub Pop releases: 1990's Frigid Stars LP, 1992's ...

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.” ...

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 ...