The Folk Implosion News

This Cleveland, Ohio-based five-piece are difficult to classify. In The Diamond Caverns starts with a twinkling, dream-like intro, then falls into an explosion of sounds a ' not unlike what you'd find on a Dark Meat album, but at an Arcade Fire pace.

As the majority of Chart magazine and subsequently CHARTattack readers know, we've covered every move by Sloan .

To a lot of folks, the late-'90s was a pop-music wasteland. Grunge and rap, two styles that matured in the late-1980s/early-'90s, were going mainstream and, in the process, being grossly watered-down. Grunge was turning into glam, and rap was turning into pure pop .

Indie rock fans are probably inclined to think of the Folk Implosion as the most prominent of Lou Barlow's many side projects from the influential indie band Sebadoh.

Prolific singer/songwriter/musician Lou Barlow seems to be bringing things together of late, rather than fragmenting further into additional side projects.

"I'd be happy if 'relaxed, weird and inscrutable' was on my tombstone," says indie rocker Lou Barlow.

With so much of the world honouring the events of 20 years ago behind what was known at the time as The Iron Curtain, let's take a glimpse back at the campus charts from a decade ago, during a time when we weren't celebrating the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Today, many of us will be reliving our childhoods through the eyes of Max and his kingdom of Wild Things.

Lou Barlow's inability to get a song in edgewise for J. Mascis Band, a.k.a. Dinosaur Jr., led to both his ouster and some fantastic sides for his burgeoning Sebadoh project.

Lou Barlow continues to break new musical ground some 25 years after he hit his first note.

It sucked that Lou Barlow's incredible band Sebadoh petered out with two tepid final records, and I never had much use for the Folk Implosion, the band that briefly broke Barlow into the mainstream with their yawn of a hit, "Natural One." Before all that, Barlow - in Sebadoh and during his three-album stint in Dinosaur Jr.

New music releases out October 6 October 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm by Vinyl Fever VINYL: Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown Lou describes this as, "a cross between my later work with Folk Implosion and my earlier work with Sebadoh." The Clientele - Bonfires on the Health The Clientele are cited as an influence by bands such as Spoon and the Fleet Foxes.

As mentioned in last week's Time Tunnel, Julie Doiron and The Wooden Stars ' collaboration began its four-week chart dominance, so this look back at the campus chart for Sept.

Taking some time out from the resurgent Dinosaur Jr., Lou Barlow's releasing his first solo album since 2005's Emoh this fall.