News to no one: A lot's happened since Broken Social Scene released that self-titled career-shifting third album five years ago: There were tours and one-offs (together and apart), solo albums, the…   Read Story »

With all the recent track leaks, everyone knows that, yes, This Is Happening. If you trust ecstatic man-on-the-Tweet hyperbole, LCD Soundsystem's third album is the record catapulting James Murphy to…   Read Story »

It's easy to discount Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. The well-coiffed twosome's rise from Wesleyan dorm room to opening slots with Radiohead, a Grammy nomination, the beds of models and…   Read Story »

Caribou's nine-song Swim follows his nine-song 2007 Polaris Winning-Andorra. The last one was 42:59. This one's 43:10. Just a quick, statistical way of pointing that that since Dan Snaith founded his…   Read Story »

We've had a chance to hear a few bits from Gorillaz' third album Plastic Beach -- “Stylo” featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack, the  De La Soul and Gruff Rhys-guesting “Superfast Jellyfish”…   Read Story »

Joanna Newsom's always been a storyteller. On 2004's The Milk-Eyed Mender the tales were richly and eccentrically meandering, even if the songs have retrospectively proven to be the most concise and…   Read Story »

It was way back in June that Spoon released Got Nuffin, a brief collection that gave us our first taste of Transference via the dusky, percussive rocker that gave the EP its name. A couple of weeks…   Read Story »

There's been plenty of pre-release hype, viral and otherwise. You've known the tracklist and backstory for a while. And after hearing "Horchata," "California English" (in two parts), "Cousins," and…   Read Story »

When we posted our most anticipated albums of 2010, there was a reason we decided to illustrate it with a Yeasayer thumbnail: It's clear the playful psychedelic Brooklyn group's second full-length…   Read Story »

When we meditated on Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally's gorgeous sophomore album Devotion we had the following to say: [Y]ou can't fall back on Mazzy Star or Galaxie 500 references because they've…   Read Story »