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In The Studio With Reptar

Reptar's popular ascent has even caught the eye of famed producer Ben Allen, who produced Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere and Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion. Check out photos of the group inside Ben Allen's Atlanta studio.  read more

School of Seven Bells: Disconnect From Desire

Nostalgia done right The only thing more difficult than telling someone you’re in love with them is telling someone that you used to be in love with them. On “I L U,” from School of Seven Bells’ sophomore LP, the psychedelic trio does just that, employing crystalline vocals textured with background sighs. The album runs the dream-pop gamut, from dizzyingly energetic to loopy and surreal. Lead track “Windstorm” kicks the album open, winding into the equally charged “Heart is Strange.” But Disconnect From Desire’s lows are just as addicting as its highs. Synths and bells make slower songs like “Joviann”...  read more

School of Seven Bells Announce New Album

School of Seven Bells, whose debut album we here at Paste described as “brimming with new age mystique and pacifying sonic drones,” have some new tunes coming out on July 13. Disconnect from Desire, the trio’s sophomore offering, will be released under Vagrant/Ghostly International....  read more

The Hold Steady: Heaven Is Whenever

The wonder years The Hold Steady’s great gift used to be the ability to transform adolescence into something that holds within its unbearable awkwardness the irreplaceable magic of discovery. But on its magnificent fifth album, the band has finally grown up a little, and singer/narrator Craig Finn sounds like a spectator in the grandstands, taking in the game and issuing casual advice to the kids on field: “You can’t kiss every girl,” he sings with near-fatherly earnestness on “Soft in the Center.” The songs, meanwhile, sound bigger than before, his bandmates compensating for the departure of keyboardist Franz Nicolay...  read more

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Beat the Devil's Tattoo

Bad attitude makes for good rock Over the past nine years and five albums, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has worked hard to craft a sound that’s both familiar and undeniably its own: slow-pounding drums, jagged and droning guitars, Peter Hayes’ dead-eyed vocals and the same too-cool attitude of that quiet dude at the bar who’s flipping through the jukebox, playing The Velvet Underground’s “Heroin” as if it’ll get people dancing....  read more

The Hold Steady Announces New Album

[Photo by Sean Edgar] Just a month after keyboardist Franz Nicolay announced he’d left the band, The Hold Steady is releasing its first album without him. Heaven is Whenever is set for a May 4 release date on Vagrant, and on it, guitarist Tad Kubler promises fans a new direction for the band. “Rather than just concentrate on changes in the instrumentation, we made changes to the song writing process,” he says....  read more

Placebo: Battle for the Sun

For a band that’s long reveled in shadows of...  read more

The (International) Noise Conspiracy: The Cross of My Calling

The (International) Noise Conspiracy professes an allegiance to situationist politics...  read more