You heard Vampire Weekend's "Jonathan Low" (one of VW's top three songs about vampires) and before that Muse's “Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)” (inescapable at vampire proms this…   Read Story »

After Thom Yorke, Bon Iver & St. Vincent, and Grizzly Bear & Beach House made soundtracks to multi-million dollar hormonal-teenage-vampires-in-love franchises a safe place for indie artists…   Read Story »

UNKLE's fourth album Where Did The Night Fall is out today. We've given you listen to a couple of songs from the collection, both with different guest vocalists. For the third track, we get another:…   Read Story »

The chiming, upbeat psychedelia of "Natural Selection," UNKLE's collaboration with onetime BTW Black Angels, contrasts with "Caged Bird," an especially sinister Where Did The Night Fall track.…   Read Story »

When last we checked in with James Lavelle & Co., part of that Co. was Josh Homme. Not a surprise: Since UNKLE's inception in 1994, the band's featured any number of guests. It's built into the…   Read Story »

It's been a while since UNKLE asked us to hold hands, but James Lavelle & Co. are back with "Chemical," a collaboration with Josh Homme, who you may last remember berating a pre-teen in Norway (and…   Read Story »

Everyone walking in to Webster to see James Lavelle and UNKLE had to be a little curious about the "very special guest vocalists." This is, after all, a band that's pulled in LP cameos from Thom…   Read Story »

The second video from UNKLE's third album War Stories spins a claustro, soft-focused tale of creepy, stairwell-to-sidewalk dragging obsession. James Lavelle vocalizes about need and hand holding,…   Read Story »

If you haven't signed up yet to receive the 'Gum Drop, Stereogum's new weekly newsletter, you're missing out on more than free music. Not only are we offering a free weekly never-before-released MP3…   Read Story »

For a second you'll think that pulling hunky Croatian thespian Goran Visnjic is just another stab at the hit-or-miss celeb stunt casting that's running rampant -- until he opens his shirt (hey…   Read Story »