Live From Paste: Wild Beasts

By Max Blau at 10:00 AM on March 21, 2012

Wild Beasts stopped by our offices last fall to do a stripped-down Live From Paste session. Check them out as they perform three songs off of their 2011 album Smother.  read more

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Treasure Island Music Festival Preview

By Angela Zimmerman at 9:40 AM on October 10, 2011

With summer in our rear-view mirror and winter barreling down, next weekend’s Treasure Island Music Festival, now in its fifth year running, marks a seasonal last hurrah for those of who crave the energy, chaos, and colorful crowds that tend to go hand-in-hand with dancing outdoors.   read more

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Wild Beasts Announces North American Tour Dates

By Andrea Kszystyniak at 2:20 PM on June 28, 2011

Wild Beasts is hitting the road in support of most recent album, Smother....  read more

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This Week's New Album Releases (5/10/11)

By Josh Jackson at 4:40 PM on May 10, 2011

We picked a baker’s dozen of noteworthy albums out today. Okkervil River gets more ambitious and The Antlers get a little less so (because how else can you follow up an album called Hospice?). Plus 75-year-old Lee “Scratch” Perry keeps working his mojo....  read more

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Catching Up With Wild Beasts

By Max Blau at 9:26 AM on May 10, 2011

"Designing something to sound undesigned is a tricky business!"  read more

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Album Stream: Wild Beasts - Smother

By Max Blau at 11:30 AM on May 3, 2011

On their third LP Smother, pensive synth crooners Wild Beasts brood with haunting introspection and stunning uncertainty, evoking emotion in a heartrending manner similar to the way that fellow Brit Antony Hegarty does so well.   read more

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Ten Stunning Fan-Made Music Videos

By Rachael Maddux at 7:00 AM on October 18, 2009

Back in the hale 1990s, when MTV and VH-1 played less music videos than they once did but still more than they play today, names like Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze and Dayton/Faris were synonymous with glorious, three-to-four-minute masterpieces set to song. These days, those directors have moved on to bigger screens, but their legacy lives on—if not in pockets like Subterranean and mtvU then definitely online, where the work of professionals and amateurs alike have near-equal standing on sites like YouTube and Vimeo. So eat your heart out, McG—here are ten stunning fan-made music videos. Have a favorite not...  read more

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Wild Beasts: Between a Purr and a Roar

By Kristina Feliciano at 4:00 PM on November 6, 2008

Hometown: Kendal, a town in England’s Lake District Album: Limbo, Panto Band Members [l-r]: Tom Fleming (bass, vocals) Benny Little (lead guitar), Hayden Thorpe (lead vocals), Chris Talbot (drums, vocals) For Fans Of: Antony and the Johnsons, falsettoBritish band Wild Beasts was originally called Fauve, a reference to a group of early-20th-century French painters (les Fauves) whose outrageous use of bold colors marked them as true avant-gardists. The band eventually translated its name to Wild Beasts “because it sounds so much more crude in English,” says singer Hayden Thorpe. Still, the avant-garde parallels remain: Wild Beasts’ debut Limbo, Panto is...  read more

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