Updated Articles and Resources
- An Interview with Stereolab's Laetitia SadierUpdated: 2008-10-10 @ 12:20:31 GMT
Laetitia Sadier discusses the state of Stereolab, and the state of the modern world, on the eve of her beloved band's ninth album… - Brendan Canning 'Something for All of Us'Updated: 2008-10-10 @ 12:01:14 GMT
Brendan Canning's solo debut is like a duller, flatter take on Broken Social Scene's collectivist mediocrity… - Los Campesinos!, No Age, Times New Viking Unite, Tour UKCreated: 2008-10-10 @ 11:59:43 GMT
Los Campesinos! have put together a tour that doubles as a triple-play of some of 2008's most buzzed-about bands… - Artist Profile: Los Campesinos!Created: 2008-10-10 @ 11:58:35 GMT
Smartypants twee-pop explosion Los Campesinos! burst onto the indie scene with the release of two albums in 2008… - An Interview with Land of Talk's Elizabeth PowellCreated: 2008-10-10 @ 11:57:53 GMT
The talkative Canadian rocker talks broken bones, Broken Social Scene, Montréal hype, and being mellowed by Bon Iver… - Artist Profile: Broken Social SceneCreated: 2008-10-10 @ 11:57:31 GMT
Potted history of the sprawling, many-membered, ever-evolving Canadian concern, as told by founders Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning… - Diplo Takes Telepathe and Abe Vigoda On October-ish '08 TourUpdated: 2008-10-08 @ 05:35:12 GMT
It's a Mad Decent Fall Classic, starring Diplo and his new pals: NY synth sirens Telepathe and wiry LA rockers Abe Vigoda… - Silver Jews on the Road AgainUpdated: 2008-10-08 @ 03:53:43 GMT
Having steadfastly refused touring for the first 16 years of the Silver Jews' existence, David Berman is taking the band on tour for the third time in four years… - Artist Profile: No AgeUpdated: 2008-10-08 @ 00:40:10 GMT
History, bio, and breakdown of the Los Angelino duo, as told by drummer/vocalist Dean Spunt… - Artist Profile: Bon IverUpdated: 2008-10-03 @ 09:46:48 GMT
Justin Vernon made a heartbroken record in a Wisconsin cabin in the middle of winter. Plenty of people have warmed to it… - An Interview with Chad VanGaalenUpdated: 2008-09-30 @ 13:56:31 GMT
The tall Canadian songsmith talks raiding rubbish skips, building instruments, and the everyman inspiration of the lo-fi movement… - Chad VanGaalen 'Soft Airplane'Updated: 2008-09-30 @ 12:04:20 GMT
The third album for the self-styled Canadian mystic is a typical mixed-bag, an ad-hoc assemblage of mismatched instrumentage that occasionally seems magical, often not… - Beach House Fall Into Fall, Tour Late '08Created: 2008-09-25 @ 10:59:40 GMT
After pressing up their first-ever seven-inch, the Baltimore duo take to the road … - Definitive Albums: Neutral Milk Hotel 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'Updated: 2008-09-24 @ 15:19:55 GMT
Neutral Milk Hotel main-man Jeff Mangum still hasn't been able to bring himself to attempt a successor to this slice of longplaying perfection… - White Hinterland Speaks French, Tours EuropeCreated: 2008-09-23 @ 10:59:02 GMT
In support of her Francophone EP 'Luniculaire', White Hinterland's Casey Dienel trips across the EU… - Top 10 'Obscure' Starter AlbumsUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 14:05:07 GMT
These unique, unusual, underground albums sound thrilling, strange, and amazing to this day. They're the best 'Obscure' albums lurking in popular music's fringes, inspiring many with their abundant… - Top 10 Matador AlbumsUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 13:57:18 GMT
Few record-labels have had an ongoing, unbroken run of pop-cultural credibility like Matador Records; whose 20 years on the job has uncovered an embarrassment of recorded riches. Here's ten glitter… - Top 10 Alternative Starter AlbumsUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 13:57:18 GMT
The defining entries in any alternative record collection. The iconoclasts whose singular sound has shaped a whole generation of underground acts… - Top 10 Sub Pop AlbumsUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 13:49:05 GMT
Though it'll be forever associated with grunge, Seattle's legendary Sub Pop Records has reinvented itself in the new millennium, presiding over an eclectic lineup of increasingly-successful acts. H… - Top 10 Merge AlbumsUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 13:44:47 GMT
From Superchunk to Destroyer, Guv'ner to the Arcade Fire, we count down 10 choice discs served up in the history of North Carolina's Merge Records… - An Interview with Mogwai's Stuart BraithwaiteUpdated: 2008-09-22 @ 10:21:22 GMT
The guitarist of the Scottish post-rock heroes is howling… - An Interview with The Walkmen's Hamilton LeithauserUpdated: 2008-09-21 @ 10:28:11 GMT
Eight years and four albums into things, the ultra-moody New Yorkers are in career-best form. Their throaty vocalist talks it like they walk it… - Parenthetical Girls 'Entanglements'Updated: 2008-09-17 @ 08:54:38 GMT
The Portland outfit's latest longplayer marries jaunty orchestrations with lyrical grotesqueries, unexpectedly making for one of 2008's best discs. … - Dig!Created: 2008-09-13 @ 12:51:55 GMT
A seven-year chronicle of the rise of The Dandy Warhols and the fall of The Brian Jonestown Massacre… - Death Vessel Tours Second RecordUpdated: 2008-09-12 @ 11:55:40 GMT
In support of his second Death Vessel album, 'Nothing is Precious Enough for Us', Joel Thibodeau hits the road… - TV on the Radio Drop Science, Hit RoadUpdated: 2008-09-12 @ 11:52:15 GMT
Following the release of their punctuation-inclusive 'Dear Science,' LP, TVOTR unleash a slate of dates for late-'08…