Future Islands Announce New EP

By Kasia Pilat at 3:46 PM on August 16, 2010

When we talked to Future Islands frontman Samuel Herring earlier this summer, he told us that, despite releasing something new each year since 2006, he’d “love put out more work.” Lucky for fans of the Baltimore-based trio’s electro-synth tunes, Herring has remained true to his word....  read more

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The Fiery Furnaces: I’m Going Away

By Michael Saba at 9:00 AM on July 23, 2009

The Fiery Furnaces’ seventh LP marks a...  read more

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Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship

By Michael Saba at 9:00 AM on July 6, 2009

Tortoise is one of the rare groups that defy...  read more

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The Fiery Furnaces are Going Away in July

By Rachel Dovey at 3:00 PM on April 30, 2009

The Fiery Furnaces will drop their latest studio album, I'm Going Away, via Thrill  Jockey Records on July 21....  read more

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Pit Er Pat: High Time

By Gavin Paul at 5:15 PM on October 30, 2008

Spacious new dispatches from far-out Chicago trioPit Er Pat's early melodies were quirky and erratic, kerplunking about like jazz without a backbone, despite Fay Davis-Jeffers' charming popstress vocals. But around 2005 the band finally nailed it, hitting a subsequent series of Thrill Jockey releases to the moon, almost literally, having reached a spacious new indie-rock frontier where musical eccentricities became boundless punctuations. ...  read more

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The Sea and Cake: Car Alarm

By Jessica Suarez at 4:00 PM on October 24, 2008

The first rule of Chicago’s the Sea and Cake is...  read more

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The Fiery Furnaces: Remember

By Michael Saba at 10:45 AM on August 26, 2008

The siblings Friedberger...  read more

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Thrill Jockey compiles 15th anniversary boxset

By Jeremy Goldmeier at 8:44 PM on October 8, 2007

[Above: Veteran Thrill Jockey act Tortoise] Secretly Canadian and Touch & Go had their chance to shine on us anniversary style. Now it's time for Thrill Jockey to step up in this mother and do its thing. The venerable Chicago imprint (late of NYC) is turning 15 this year, which means it's celebratory compilation time. Back when Thrill Jockey started out, 7" singles were the currency for independent labels. Cheap, quick, and easy to use, these miniature records allowed the young label to break artists like Tortoise and Freakwater in a hurry. The label might be all grown up (or...  read more

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