Call it fansourcing, call it laziness, but the "make our music video!" press releases that flood Stereogum's inbox make me yearn for the days of "Scream." Of course labels have no money and MTV/VH1…   Read Story »

With Saturdays=Youth, Anthony Gonzalez melded his shoegazey synths and electronics to John Hughes era, Pretty In Pink-tinted nostalgia to sweeping effect and face time with Brandon Flowers, Kimmel,…   Read Story »

One-off concerts pairing indie acts with orchestras are still all the rage. We recently caught Beirut and Clogs/Bell Orchestre & Friends and Grizzly Bear in our neck of the woods, and on Saturday…   Read Story »

As well as a bunch of equipment. Amid the noise separators, headphones, and etc., M83's live incarnation's clunkier/more Musician looking than your average Sixteen Candles house band, but Anthony…   Read Story »

The last time the Killers did Kimmel they explained their band name ("to relax before a show we like to kill someone"). This time they kept it to the music and the feathered jackets with a shot at…   Read Story »

True to John Hughes-inspired form, this latest video -- for the OMD-y "Kim & Jessie" from Anthony Gonzales's awesome '80s homage Saturdays = Youth -- has a pair of pretty (in pink) girls, fighting…   Read Story »

M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, toned his sounds down on fifth album Saturdays = Youth, but the emotions remain teenage, achy, and perfectly romantic. Following "Coleurs" and "Graveyard Girl," Gonzalez is…   Read Story »

M83, aka Anthony Gonzalez, toned his sounds down on fifth album Saturdays = Youth, but the emotions remain teenage, achy, and perfectly romantic. Gonzalez is releasing album standout "Kim & Jessie"…   Read Story »

M83's Saturdays=Youth is a big hit, everybody. Congratulations. You know we love it, the P4kers seem to enjoy it, etc. Best part: Anthony's just 26 and, judging by his perennial remix parade, showing…   Read Story »

We really like Saturday = Youth. Like M83's past work it's really New Romantic, but the structures are less colossal. As we mentioned while discussing "Coleurs," "We dig M83 the most when Gonzales is…   Read Story »