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Watch Clips of Wolf Parade's Final Show

Over the course of their nearly eight years as a band, Canadian rockers Wolf Parade haven’t relied solely on their trademark synth-led guitar lines. With three LP’s under their belts, the group has taken a stab at everything from prog-rock to fuzzy lo-fi recordings, while still managing to attract a devoted legion of fans....  read more

Our Favorite Posters from the Indie Rock Poster Book

“I see where the inspiration came from,” someone might say squinting at a smudge of brown paint on a canvas in a brightly-lit gallery. But it’s often difficult to see where an artist is coming from when the only explanation is a neatly printed card with a singular word or phrase accompanied by a high-price tag....  read more

The 25 Best Album Covers of 2010

Album art has had a rough go of late. Big vinyl cover art got reduced to little CD cover art which got reduced to pixels on a screen. Fortunately, bands continue to do great things with those pixels, as attested to by The 25 Best Album Covers of 2010.  read more

Wolf Parade Goes on Indefinite Hiatus

Canadian rockers Wolf Parade may have played their final show ever this weekend in Toronto. “This is the last show we’ll play for a long time,” singer Spencer Krug told the crowd....  read more

Watch Wolf Parade's "Yulia" Video

Scott Coffey writes and directs the cosmonaut-themed video for Wolf Parade’s “Yulia,” the latest single from Expo 86....  read more

Wolf Parade Plots End-of-Year Tour

Wolf Parade’s newest album, Expo 86, dropped recently, and the Canadian band recently announced an end-of-year tour that takes them all over Europe throughout September and, finally, up and down the eastern U.S. in November....  read more

Wolf Parade: Expo 86

Marching on Wolf Parade’s third studio LP attempts to straddle the ghostly and mesmerizing pop of their stellar debut Apologies to the Queen Mary and the sprawling, fuzzed-out prog of followup At Mount Zoomer. The Montreal quartet is mostly successful in this balancing act, delivering a handful of thematically-obtuse pop missiles heavy on reverb and guitar, with trademark synths still lurking low in the mix. There’s plenty of Queen Mary-esque verve and vigor; “Palm Road” is a delightfully skuzzy guitar-rocker buoyed by straight-outta-DEVO Casio lines, and “Pobody’s Nerfect” is Wolf Parade in fighting trim—a cacophony of gritty guitar, Moog, rumbling...  read more

Ten June Albums Worth Checking Out

Ah, June. It's the month that kicks off summer, the month where music festivals start popping up like weeds...  read more

25 Albums We're Looking Forward To This Summer

It's May, which means it's almost summer, which means car windows rolled down and stereos cranked up. Here to start off our summer preview week are 25 albums...  read more

Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 Finalizes Lineup

We knew that Modest Mouse, Pavement and LCD Soundsystem had signed on to play this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, but late last week, the Pitchforkers announced the rest of the three-day fest’s lineup. Added were Broken Social Scene, Liars, Panda Bear, Wolf Parade, Big Boi, Beach House, Major Lazer and many more....  read more