As far as I know, the the biggest NYC venue headlined to date by Biffy Clyro is the 500-capacity Gramercy Theater. I've seen them there, and in considerably smaller spaces, too -- the Studio At…   Read Story »

Coachella Weekend 1 strikes tomorrow! If you’re heading out to Indio for the festival, we know you’re probably intending to check out Blur, Phoenix, the Postal Service, and many of the other…   Read Story »

In the video for Biffy Clyro's "Biblical," the band's frontman Simon Neil gets a phone call that sets off a violent series of events -- and when the song's second verse comes around, his day begins…   Read Story »

I wrote a lot about Biffy Clyro last week, when we premiered "Modern Magic Forumla," from their new album Opposites. Since then, that album has gone to No. 1 in the UK and Biffy has won the NME Award…   Read Story »

What follows is a somewhat-lengthy digression on the nature of one person's fandom. To skip to the song-reviw portion of this post, click here. The record store I worked at was called Rebel Rebel…   Read Story »

Beyoncé doesn't normally play festivals, but by all accounts she killed it at Worth Farm last night. After her Glasto headline performance the star told BBC she was so nervous playing for 175,000…   Read Story »

Before we kick off the bulk of this week's CMJ coverage, we're gonna look all the way back to last week's Iceland Airwaves Festival. Stereogum sent photog Abbey Braden overseas to take it all in.…   Read Story »

Our friends at Pitchfork -- if there's one thing they know, it's how to hate with style. Today the point-lovers set aside their trusty numeric conventions for an unranked and totally amusing list of…   Read Story »

That's Biffy, nearly in the buff up there. So. We've had more than enough bands from Canada and/or bands with lupine names over the past few, but Abbey hit the FADER party on Thursday to see if…   Read Story »