Slint Music

Origin: Louisville, KY

Decades: 1980's and 1990's

Though largely overlooked during their relatively brief lifespan, Slint grew to become one of the most influential and far-reaching bands to emerge from the American underground rock community of the 1980s; innovative and iconoclastic, the group's deft, extremist manipulations of volume, tempo, and structure cast them as clear progenitors of the post-rock movement which blossomed during the following decade. Whatever the extent of Slint's own influence, the group grew out of Louisville, Kentucky's legendar... Read More