"Your Loft" is the first single from the forthcoming Trans-Love Energies. The track features BTW Austra's Katie Stelmanis. The "Your Loft" single is out 8/19. Trans Love Energies is out 9/12…   Read Story »

Death In Vegas is set to release a new 12-song collection Trans Love Energies, the first album since 2004's Satan's Circus. Songwriter/frontman/brain Richard Fearless, who spent a number of those…   Read Story »

BTW Austra's excellent debut Feel It Break has spawned the Sparkle 12", a 6-song EP featuring remixes of "Spellwork," "Lose It," and "Beat And The Pulse" by folks like Planningtorock, Mark Pistel,…   Read Story »

We still have plenty of time and music left in 2011, but since we're at the halfway (or so) mark, we thought it made sense to pause and take stock of the best albums of the year so far. There was…   Read Story »

Two of Toronto's electro-pop rising stars cross tracks on this one, a remix of ascendent BTW Austra's big single "Lose It" by John O aka Diamond Rings. It's freely downloadable: Austra - "Lose It…   Read Story »

Unlike James Blake's take on Joni, for which the singer-songwriter set aside most of his production tricks in favor of being a more standard singer-songwriter, Katie Stelmanis and her band Austra…   Read Story »

In this video for dark, danceable Toronto BTW (x 2) Austra's "Lose It," Katie Stelmanis & Co. are carefully arranged by director M Blash to play cards, fight, bleed, and watch rockets in a stock NYC…   Read Story »

April's mix is female heavy and thematically clustered. It tips off with a track from each of our three most recent Bands To Watch. The remainder features a few songs that are numerically fixated…   Read Story »

It's not news that popular indie rock got a bit darker in 2010. Look no further than regular topics of conversation around here -- Zola Jesus, CREEP, Cold Cave, Salem, Tamaryn, Blessure Grave,…   Read Story »

The concluding post on this year's SXSW comes with this, a break from the norm for us and likely for you as well. In addition to identifying the bands we were most excited about at this year's SXSW,…   Read Story »