This week saw a serious abundance of straight-up fun, ridiculous videos -- four-minute blasts of joy that didn't take themselves the tiniest bit seriously. I'll take that over a bunch of serious art…   Read Story »

You, the readers of Stereogum, have already anointed Japandroids' bleeding-heart banger "The House That Heaven Built" as the Indie Song Of The Summer, so obviously a music video was a long time…   Read Story »

Friday's first day of Pitchfork Festival wasted no time getting into it, where many festival entrants walked in to the fully-wrought hypnotic swirl of Lower Dens, a set that eventually gave way to…   Read Story »

Japandroids returned to Fallon to play "Fire's Highway" as well as "The House That Heaven Built," which is a web-exclusive. On the latter performance, Roots guitarist "Captain" Kirk Douglas joins the…   Read Story »

In their Progress Report interview, and in this Pitchfork interview, the two fairly unassuming late-20s dudes in Japandroids talk a lot about how they love touring and hate recording. Touring the…   Read Story »

Japandroids' raucous sophomore LP is one of our favorite albums of the year so far, an achievement all the more notable because, as they told us in a recent Progress Report, they basically broke up…   Read Story »

Name: Japandroids Progress Report: Brian King talks about the duo’s highly anticipated sophomore album, Celebration Rock. Canadian pop-thrash duo Japandroids will release their sophomore album,…   Read Story »

A couple of months ago, someone I follow on Twitter posted a video of some kids goofing around in their basement/rec room area to the soundtrack of Japandroids' "Younger Us." Even though the footage…   Read Story »

Last week, we posted "The House That Heaven Built," the excellent new track from ragged Canadian destroyers Japandroids. That track is the first single from Japandroids' new album Celebration Rock,…   Read Story »

HBO's medieval drama Game Of Thrones premieres April 1, and this season's plot involves five different claims to the throne and these respective factions' ongoing clobbering of one another…   Read Story »