Music

Not to be confused with MEN, The Men are a Brooklyn quartet who are carrying the banner of old-school punk pretty well for this day and age. Their upcoming LP…

Here is your daily dose of Swedish pop deliciousness. Miike Snow, who have a new album called Happy To You coming out soon, have recruited Lykke Li for their latest…

New Zealand musician Pip Brown is back with her solo project Ladyhawke, news of an upcoming LP called Anxiety, and a super-catchy brand-new single called “Black, White & Blue.”

Multitalented orchestral pop songsmith Andrew Bird has been quiet since the release of 2009’s Noble Beast, but everyone’s favorite indie whistler/violinist is back with a new record recorded in his…

Boston’s You Won’t might have a resolutely un-Googleable band name, but their percussive, ramshackle approach to hyper-lo-fi bedroom folk-pop is something a little more unique. Take, for example, “Ten Years…

Gorillaz and Blur frontman, Damon Albarn, is the latest musician to rework one of Lana Del Rey’s singles, joining the likes of Clams Casino, Joy Orbison, Jamie Woon and The…

Arctic Monkeys dropped the horrendously titled but otherwise pretty good Suck It and See in 2011 and it’s still yielding singles – next up is “Black Treacle,” b/w the brand…

Ambient-leaning electro composer Elephant & Castle (aka David Vincent Reep) is gearing up to drop his first full-length LP Transitions soon, and he’s warming up his audience with an album…

On his 2011 self-titled record and the assorted non-album tracks he’s been dropping left and right since then, anonymous, genre-busting London producer SBTRKT is giving the UK’s art-dubstep trend a…

Miike Snow’s prepping for a banner 2012: confirming a Coachella appearance, announcing a new record, dropping catchy singles: now they’re countering the alpine imagery in their name with a new…

We’re really into Trust, the chilly electro project of Austra drummer Maya Postepski and Robert Alfons (see: our obsession with their early single “Bulbform”), so we’re psyched about the release…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely heard about South African rave-rap crew Die Antwoord’s upcoming second LP Ten$ion. Until its release they’re building up Internet hype the…

Daniel Rossen has an absolute gift for crafting strange and beautiful chamber pop (case in point: his two bands, Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles, and his staggering songwriting and…

Irish folk band the Chieftains have been around for literally fifty years, and to celebrate they’re releasing an aptly titled record, Voice of Ages, which includes collaborations with folk artists…

After collaborating with approximately nine hundred other projects, Nick Thorburn is back with Islands and a new album, A Sleep and A Forgetting, coming in February, and after “This Is…

Baltimorean songwriter Jana Hunter and her band of the haze-bending bearded dudes in Lower Dens are back after their fantastic 2010 record Twin Hand Movement and a well-deserved break with…

Secretive, maybe-Philly-based international collective CSLSX have been making multidisciplinary art for a while, and their newest release “Aeromancer” is a delicious introduction to their electric synth-pop.

Left-field hip-hop producer Clams Casino — who has recently churned out massive tracks for mixtapes by The Weeknd and A$AP Rocky — has remixed the blogosphere’s favorite punching bag, Lana…

We haven’t heard original material from our favorite bespectacled electro-pop singer Amanda Warner, who goes by MNDR, in a while, and we’ve missed her gift for bending chilly layers of…

The artist formerly known as Mos Def (he goes by his Muslim name Yasiin Bey now) is embarking on the massive undertaking that is his Top 40 Underdog project, quasi-covering…