Dirty Projectors: Out of the Woods

By Ryan Reed at 10:52 AM on July 6, 2012

Dave Longstreth has never written “songs” in the traditional sense: His music is fractured and messy, the sonic equivalent of pointillistic visual art.  read more

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Catching Up With Screaming Females' Jarrett Dougherty

By Katie King at 9:00 AM on July 1, 2012

Since first starting in the basement scene of a New Jersey college town, Screaming Females have come a long way, after playing throughout the U.S. and Europe alongside the likes of Ted Leo and the Arctic Monkeys.  read more

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Hollow & Akimbo: The Best of What's Next

By Tyler Kane at 12:15 PM on June 28, 2012

In a world of internet hype, bands testing material on the road and through rough-quality SoundCloud previews, the guys in Michigan-based Hollow & Akimbo were able to utilize something with their album that most present-day artists wouldn’t dream of: Restraint.  read more

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Joe Jackson: 10 Things You May Not Have Known

By Tom Lanham at 12:00 AM on June 27, 2012

In retrospect, Jackson’s bratty, nasal bark—which caught the public’s ear via his breakthrough Look Sharp! single, “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”—was certainly an unusual style, but one that perfectly embodied the jarring, iconoclastic punk/New Wave movement.  read more

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Catching Up With Zulu Winter

By Darren Orf at 12:00 PM on June 25, 2012

After releasing its first single last November, Zulu Winter has quickly gathered attention throughout Britain with its indie pop-rock sound. The five-piece band’s debut album, Language, exhibits a maturity that can take bands years to achieve.  read more

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Catching Up With Hot Chip

By Hilary Hughes at 5:00 PM on June 21, 2012

Reading through the itinerary for Hot Chip’s ongoing international expedition is more exhausting than keeping track of the instruments employed by the English dance pop five-piece, but only slightly.   read more

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Perfume Genius: The Best of What's Next

By Max Blau at 11:45 AM on June 19, 2012

For Put Your Back N 2 It, Perfume Genius made his way into a proper studio for the first time, working with producer Drew Morgan to craft a sparse, yet carefully arranged record emphasizing his voice and storytelling.  read more

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These United States: Life, Death and These United States

By Drake Baer at 10:14 AM on June 18, 2012

The first time you meet Jesse Elliott, he’ll greet you like an old friend: right hand swooping out for a shake, smile bursting out from his beard, grey-green eyes wide with exuberance.  read more

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Metric

By Bo Moore at 9:28 AM on June 14, 2012

In a letter to fans, family and friends, Metric frontwoman Emily Haines described Synthetica, the band's fifth studio LP, out today on Metric Music International, as the culmination of the band's more than 10 years together, coming forth in the sound they had always hoped to realize.  read more

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Glen Hansard: Songs of Good Hope

By Greg McAteer at 11:09 AM on June 12, 2012

Glen Hansard has become one of the most perennial of Irish archetypes, the emigrant. Pulled away across an ocean by the success of an Irish film which found a warm hearth and a good roof over its head in the USA, he has tarried there since.  read more

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