Last night, Kraftwerk's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 retrospective commenced at NYC's MoMA, the German electro pioneers' first show in the city since 2005. The series, a chain of events whose ticket sale process…   Read Story »

After reminding us "The End Of The World Is Bigger Than Love" (aka the summer is best experienced in 3/4 time), Lekman appeared on the Australian game show Spicks And Specks dressed like…   Read Story »

Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker and his Freaks (including Real Estaters Matt Mondanile and Martin Courtney) just released their hazy Crazy Horse-flavored self-titled debut on Underwater Peoples. In…   Read Story »

By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy Well, this was the best Saturday we've had in awhile. We started the day with an afternoon set by SM & the Jicks. Malkmus, properly protected from the UV rays in his…   Read Story »

Last year was our first Coachella, and it easily ranked as our favorite festival of '07 -- due to our newness to Indio, but also to an unmatched lineup with lots of built-in storylines (Björk's…   Read Story »

Take 8-bit gadgets (old computers, handheld games, Nintendos, etc), record those blips and bleeps, and string 'em together to make sweet, sweet music -- and you've got the genre known as bitpop. Or…   Read Story »