Tune-Yards is Merrill Garbus, a puppeteer-turned-musician with a flair for strange sounds, odd influences, and tape…
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John Vanderslice is a producer, recording studio owner, and master craftsman of intricate, nuanced pop. His music…
Hexadecagon’s first listeners encountered a spectacle. They filed into a circus tent in The Octopus Project’s Austin…
To a large degree, the Arcade Fire mythology has always been the mythology of Régine and Win. That’s Régine…
Musically, there’s nothing groundbreaking about Tomorrow Morning, Eels’ ninth studio album. Longtime fans will…
Free Energy stands a good distance away from the sort of indie experimentalism that’s worked out so well for bands…
Xiu Xiu’s latest album is called Dear God, I Hate Myself, which so neatly encompasses the band’s ethos that it could…
Where did jj come from? The Swedish duo, unknown and perhaps nonexistent until recently, put out two albums in the…
“Disease, Injury, Madness,” an 11-minute song on Between The Buried And Me’s sixth album, last year's The Great…
The music of Los Campesinos is simultaneously melodic and chaotic. It’s jam-packed with self-deprecating tales of…
Weathervanes, the recently released debut album from New York band Freelance Whales, is a strange and ambitious…
“Disease, Injury, Madness,” an 11-minute song on Between The Buried And Me’s sixth album, last year's The Great…
Vetiver's Andy Cabic has a surfeit of musical identities: He came up in North Carolina’s fertile music scene of the…
Some band names bear a striking resemblance to one another. Black Dice and Black Eyes, Calexico and Califone, Sum 41…
Canadian violinist Owen Pallett—he used to perform as Final Fantasy until a copyright-related name-change late last…
Free Energy stands a good distance away from the sort of indie experimentalism that’s worked out so well for bands…
It’s hard to describe the music of Pelican. The Chicago- and Los Angeles-based band—performing at The Rock And Roll…
It’s hard to describe the music of Pelican. The Chicago- and Los Angeles-based band, performing at the Highline…
A selection of song titles from Real Estate’s self-titled debut: “Beach Comber,” “Atlantic City,” “Let’s Rock The…
John Darnielle is the impressively prolific musician behind The Mountain Goats, a name he’s recorded under since the…