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Islands Announce Tour Dates

Islands announced a North American tour in support of their upcoming album titled A Sleep & A Forgetting, one of the 25 albums we’re looking forward to this year. The tour starts on the same day the album is released, on Feb. 14, in Los Angeles at the Bootleg Theatre. The tour wraps up in San Francisco on March 13 for now, but there is a to-be-announced date scheduled in San Diego the following day.   read more

Watch a New Islands Video, "This Is Not A Song"

A few months back, Islands announced that they would be returning with a studio LP coming out in early 2012. Well now we know that the album will be titled A Sleep & A Forgetting and it will be dropping on February 14 next year.   read more

Islands Announce New Album

Art-pop Brooklynites, by way of Montreal, Islands have announced that they will release a new album next Valentine’s Day. A Sleep & A Forgetting will be the bands fourth album and the third on Anti-Records.  read more

Mister Heavenly: Out of Love

Indie-Rock Supergroups: Sometimes they work (see: psychedelic goof-offs GAYNGS); sometimes they underwhelm (see: high-brow romantics Swan Lake); sometimes—more like rarely—they change music forever (see: Broken Social Scene)....  read more

Album Stream: Mister Heavenly - Out Of Love

Listen the Mister Heavenly's debut record Out Of Love an entire week before it comes out in stores.  read more

Mister Heavenly Announces Album Release Date

Supergroup Mister Heavenly has finally announced the album we’ve all been waiting for. Their first release, Out of Love, will hit stores Aug. 16....  read more

Download Two Mister Heavenly Songs

Download two Mister Heavenly songs via the widget below. The Man Man/Islands/Modest Mouse supergroup will have an album out via Sub Pop this year....  read more

Islands, Man Man, Modest Mouse Supergroup Tours, Readies Album

Back in January, Islands’ Nick Diamonds and Man Man’s Honus Honus united under their self-created genre doom-wop. Only now do the two announce the addition of Modest Mouse’s Joe Plummer and the birth of their powerful trio, Mister Heavenly....  read more

Honus Honus Talks Islands Collaboration, New Man Man Album

"He's got the polish and I've got the shellac," Honus says of his forthcoming project with Nick Thorbun...  read more

Feist+Arcade Fire+Beck+David Cross Halloween Video (Awesome of the Day)

Back in October 2005, Vice Records released a song called “Do They Know It’s Hallowe’en?” to benefit UNICEF (and to poke fun at the patronizing attitude of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”). The band that recorded it was called the “North American Hallowe’en Prevention Initiative,” and its list of members from the U.S. and Canada included:...  read more