Toronto punks Fucked Up are an ambitious bunch, and that's probably the most evident in their series of Chinese Zodiac singles. Every year, the band releases a single to mark the year on the Chinese…   Read Story »

Almost none of us are at work this week, so almost none of us are getting fired. And with the holidays coming to an end, we don't have to keep the good-cheer veneer up for much longer. So: Time to…   Read Story »

When music magazines and website, ours included, publish year-end best-of lists, those lists are basically composites. All the people on staff get together to haggle, deliberate, and argue, and…   Read Story »

M. Shawn Crahan is the resident scary clown in the inexplicably long-running Iowa trudge-metal band Slipknot, and he's also the most unexpected thing about the new deluxe edition of Austra's great…   Read Story »

Austra's icy electro purrs don't seem like the type of things that would translate well to an acoustic performance. But in the latest edition of the Paper Bag Sessions video series, frontwoman Katie…   Read Story »

Last year, right around the time summer turned to fall, we at Stereogum published our list of the 40 best new bands of the year. The idea of a "new" band is a pretty nebulous one, since many of the…   Read Story »

The vibed-out Canadian electro-goth-pop BTW Austra, who bodied "Alone, Together" on our Strokes tribute, have a new single for "Spellwork," one of the standouts from their excellent debut album Feel…   Read Story »

Arcade Fire's The Suburbs world tour stopped in the Netherlands last night and Elena Morelli supplied some shots of the show. Opening were indie rock heatseekers Austra, who recently contributed…   Read Story »

BTW Austra's original track "Beat And The Pulse" is gothic electro done with a spacey, otherwordly sort of calm. It's somehow creepy and sleepy simultaneously, and it gets under your skin. For their…   Read Story »

BTW Cold Cave played to a sweat-drenched capacity crowd at the Ukrainian Cultural Center for a show ending with Wes Eisold being pulled into the clamoring masses. Another BTW alumnus Austra seduced…   Read Story »