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The Philistines Jr. to Release Compilation Featuring Covers, Remixes of Their Songs

Connecticut-based indie-rock band The Philistines Jr. may not appear to be a big name in the music scene, but they have more clout than most realize: Drummer Adam Pearce helms the group Mice Parade, while bandleader Peter Katis has produced for big-name acts like The National, Frightened Rabbit and Jónsi.  read more

Fucked Up, Tokyo Police Club to Perform "Smells Like Teen Spirit" 144 Times

Nostalgia for Nirvana's Nevermind is understandably high right now in the music world, as 2011 marks the landmark rock album's 20th anniversary. In celebration, artists everywhere are paying their respects to the record and its songs in their own ways.  read more

Listen to Tokyo Police Club's Ambitious Cover Project

Tokyo Police Club have embarked on an incredibly ambitious cover project they are calling 10 Song, 10 Days, 10 Hours, 10 Years. According to Entertainment Weekly!, each day for the next 10 days, the band will go into Red Bull Studios in Los Angeles and rehearse/record a cover of a song from the past 10 years in 10 hours. There will be one cover song from each year of the past 10 years, getting kicked off with a cover of Moby's "Southside" which features guest vocals by Morgan Kibby of M83. Their cover song from 2002 that got released today is of Jimmy Eat World's "Sweetness" featuring Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit fame.  read more

The 12 Best Music Videos Starring Animals

Music videos + adorable animals = almost too much awesomeness to handle. Here are 12 of the very best  read more

Tokyo Police Club, Two Door Cinema Club Photos - Atlanta, GA

Photos by Kelly Makepeace  read more

Tokyo Police Club Co-Headline New Tour and Record Daytrotter Session

Canadian indie rockers Tokyo Police Club are currently busy spending their November touring all over Europe, but fear not! The quartet recently announced a new tour they’re co-headlining with Two Door Cinema Club that kicks off in Toledo early this December....  read more

Our Favorite Daytrotter Portraits

If you, like us, are a big fan of Daytrotter...  read more

Tokyo Police Club: Champ

A winning do-over The blog-bait now known as Tokyo Police Club used to be called Suburbia, a more honest (if inelegant) reflection of their ingenuous post-punk/emo blend. The band’s 2006 breakout EP, A Lesson in Crime, distilled twitchy synths and guitars into two-minute blasts of hormones and naiveté, but on 2008 LP Elephant Shell, they handcuffed themselves by aiming for the kind of layered, measured album favored by their new label, Saddle Creek—a wannabe grownup album from a group that thrived on juvenilia. Their sophomore LP, the optimistically titled Champ, opens promisingly with the lean, mean “Favorite Food," on...  read more

New Pornographers Extend Tour Through End of Year

Although the New Pornographers trekked across North America this year on their new album, Together, they’re not ready to stop yet: Lots of new dates have been added to the calendar, taking them to Europe and back again for a year-ending tour that starts at the end of August and ends in December....  read more

Catching Up With... Tokyo Police Club

"It was just so much easier to not pay attention..."  read more