Liars

It seems that with its new self-titled disc, the unpredictable trio has decided to take a small step from the shadows into the light...  read more

Liars support Interpol on fall tour

It keeps getting better to be a Liar. After 2006’s sadistic pleasure Drums Not Dead, the band has a new album, Liars, coming out August 28, and we’re really excited. Now, they’ve gone ahead and announced a major fall tour opening for Interpol. They’ll be playing everywhere from Madison Square Garden to the L.A. Forum. Also, check out the new video for “Plaster Casts of Everything,” the first single off the upcoming album. Yeah, it’s kind of like the video for “Karma Police,”except the Liars’ video purées your brain, while Radiohead’s merely chopped it into pieces. Upcoming Liars/Interpol tour...  read more

Liars talk new album, covering The Doors

You’d be forgiven if you assumed Liars were pretentious snobs. Since releasing their pioneering dance-punk debut They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top in 2001, these rockers have done pretty much everything to fit the pretentious rocker modus operandi. They've play art rock. They've record “tribal-influenced” albums. Their lead singer has lived in Berlin. They were part of the New York dance-punk “movement” in 2002. But chatting up lead singer Angus Andrew, it’s striking how far-off this impression is from the truth. It’s turns out that Andrew is actually a pretty down-to-earth guy, who...  read more