Starting sometime today, and growing tomorrow, some 20,000 people will converge on Austin, TX for Fun Fun Fun Fest. If you're not one of them, you have every right and reason to be very, very…   Read Story »

Last month, we awarded an Album Of The Week to Love Will Prevail, the latest from Brooklyn dark-folk strum-stompers Cult Of Youth. And now we've got a video for "Man And Man's Ruin," one of that LP's…   Read Story »

Last week, from 9/10 - 9/16, the Incubate festival moved into the city of Tilburg, in the Netherlands. Along with a range of other cultural offerings, Incubate hosted more than 300 musical acts in a…   Read Story »

This is a big day for new albums: Animal Collective's Centipede Hz, Cat Power's Sun, Jens Lekman's I Know What Love Isn't, the Fresh & Onlys' Long Slow Dance, plenty of others. And all the albums I…   Read Story »

Next month, the great Brooklyn evil-folk BTW Cult Of Youth will release their new album Love Will Prevail, which frontman Sean Ragon recorded in his own handbuilt studio, playing most of the…   Read Story »

Stereogum40 alum/former BTW Cult Of Youth will release a new record called Love Will Prevail later this fall, a follow-up to last year's heavy self-titled debut. Love Will Prevail found figurehead…   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 »

Cult Of Youth bassist Micki Pellerano directed this sexy, bloody black and white video for his Brooklyn BTW's dark howler, "The Pole-Star." If the feel's familiar, it's maybe because he also did that…   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 »

Here lies our documentation of Thursday in Austin. For more, check our list of 32 Must See Bands this week, and our coverage from Wednesday. (That's Zola Jesus above, by Ryan Muir.) Click on:…   Read Story »