This Friday just keeps getting weirder. Case in point: Interpol frontman Paul Banks just released a new rap mixtape; it's on DatPiff and everything. The tape, adorably, is called Everybody On My Dick…   Read Story »

When we posted the 10 Best Indie Christmas Songs we limited our list to yuletide jamz that actually exist. Animal New York took a different tack, imagining what holiday songs would sound like if they…   Read Story »

Next month, Matador will release a 10th Anniversary Edition of Interpol's classic Turn On The Bright Lights -- an anniversary we celebrated as well -- which will feature a deluxe package of LPs and…   Read Story »

New York is, more or less, a terrifying underwater mess right now, but David Letterman still did his show as scheduled last night, and another New Yorker came through as his musical guest. Interpol…   Read Story »

Interpol frontman Paul Banks has, at least for now, ditched his Julian Plenti alter-ego, and now he's releasing music under his very own name. Next week, he drops his album Banks, and we've already…   Read Story »

Turn On The Bright Lights is just one of those records for me. When it hit – ten years ago on Aug. 19 – I was at the age when hearing something you really liked mattered the most. I became sort…   Read Story »

Three years ago, Interpol frontman Paul Banks released his first-ever solo album under his Julian Plenti alter-ego. Earlier this year, it looked like that alter-ego was on its way back, as Banks…   Read Story »

Interpol's Paul Banks has an EP out today called Julian Plenti Lives ..., and in celebration of that he's letting go of that release's second track, a lush, multi-chambered rocker called "Summertime…   Read Story »

I like Salem. If we play the odds, though, chances are you probably don't (unless you're Juno). That said, it was a pretty interesting move for Interpol -- a once hugely buzzing band on an undeniable…   Read Story »

If you're a Muse or My Chemical Romance fan, I feel sorta bad for you, but today's your lucky day: The bands are headlining this summer's Reading & Leeds Festivals. The (not so) resurgent Strokes and…   Read Story »