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Watch The Rapture’s “Sail Away” Video

The Rapture released a new video for the synth-rocker “Sail Away” from this year’s In the Grace of Your Love.   read more

The Rapture: In The Grace of Your Love

In The Grace of Your Love does not reinvent The Rapture, not even superficially. The New York dance-punk originals are still playing hard, city-slicker bangers; Luke Jenner’s teetering yelp is still an acquired taste; their album cover and promo photos still convey a stark, effortless suave, and of course, they’re still signed to DFA. The five-year gap since the band’s last full-length Pieces of the People We Love has subversively encouraged a lot of people to write off their scene-defining presence as something ready for the history books, but Grace serves as a flagrant reminder of all the ways The...  read more

The Rapture Announces Tour Dates

Dance-punkers The Rapture have plotted out an extensive tour in support of their upcoming LP, In the Grace of Your Love....  read more

Ted Leo, Best Coast, The Rapture, Panda Bear Many More to Play FYF Fest 2010

The lineup is out for this year’s FYF Fest, and it’s a veritable who’s-who of both recent buzz bands and musical staples....  read more

The Rapture Working With Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Producer on New Album

Following up his work on Phoenix’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, French producer Philippe Zdar will lend his creative hand to The Rapture’s forthcoming full-length album....  read more

The Rapture plans DJ mix with Ghostface, Daft Punk, more

We may never actually be lifted bodily off the earth in the eschatological apocalypse, but while we're waiting we can at least jam to Tapes, an awesome new DJ mix that the dance rockers of The Rapture will release in a few weeks....  read more

Lollapalooza is happening right now

What makes a great music festival? Is it the diverse array of bands? The diverse atmosphere? The nice weather? The delicious food? None of the above. The correct answer is: incongruous combinations. And when the festival is Lollapalooza, which brings together roughly 80,000 bands of every shape and size, the opportunities for incongruousness are limitless! Today, at 4:30, you can choose between M.I.A. and moe., and it is almost certain that you will not want to see both! And tonight, you will be presented with a real challenge: Daft Punk or Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals? The festival offers...  read more

The Rapture Play with Shiny Toy Guns

Oh, the noise, the funk. This time, it's being brought to you courtesy of the boys in that New-York-based, genre-spanning foursome, The Rapture. Currently finishing up some dates in exotic, far away places like Australia and Japan, the band just announced a co-headlining tour with Universal Motown labelmates Shiny Toy Guns starting later this month. Speaking of Shiny Toy Guns, you may want to check out the current Paste Band of the Week. And if you still can’t get enough, here, for your viewing pleasure, are the latest videos from the two bands: The Rapture – “Pieces of the People...  read more