When APW presented its inaugural festival last year, we weren't alone in taking issue with the experience: lack of food options, a fair but generally recycled undercard which played more like "a…   Read Story »

Day last of All Tomorrow's Parties' first foray in the great state of New York featured another blockbuster, '90s-leaning lineup, although this one was extra special: acts hand picked by the…   Read Story »

As of today, the Glaswegian's newest (out 9/23 via Matador) is streaming in full at the their MySpace. We've posted The Hawk's "The Sun Smells Too Loud" and "Batcat," but now you get to see firsthand…   Read Story »

For "Batcat," Glasgow's preeminent loud/soft/loud/soft instrumentalists give us a creepy chase scene filled with worms, flies, a dead cat, and a little girl who resembles a Renaissance painting.…   Read Story »

Mogwai, those veteran Glaswegian purveyors of loud/soft/loud/soft instrumentals, are back with their sixth studio album The Hawk Is Howling, the follow-up to 2006's Mr. Beast. I've only been…   Read Story »

16 years! It's been a long time to wait. For some of you it's probably been a lifetime. All that ends this fall, though, confirmed via tonight's news that's caused music bloggers countrywide to faint…   Read Story »

We feel compelled to make some sort of Mogwai and Pixies joke -- you know, Gremlins versus those cute winged things (and Bob Geldof's daughter) -- but the Scottish noise-gazers do such a overloaded,…   Read Story »

Scottish post-rockers and Zidane soundtrackers Mogwai will cover Pixies' "Gouge Away" on an upcoming tribute to the band, set for November 13th release on American Laundromat Records. The label's…   Read Story »

Turkey break is always a good time to hit the flicks, and one of the movies opening in time for the holiday is The Fountain, a trippy film about love and reincarnation, starring Wolverine and Rachel…   Read Story »