Last week, the Mountain Goats took part in the Ecstatic Music Festival, a New York event that exists somewhere on the border between indie rock and classical music. Mountain Goats frontman John…   Read Story »

The Strokes' debut album Is This It was first released on 7/30/01. To help us celebrate this 10th Anniversary, we asked some of our favorite indie bands to cover each track. The resulting collection,…   Read Story »

Owen Pallet's engaging video for scissoring Heartland track "The Great Elsewhere" feels (and looks) like a romantic time-lapse nature film. It was directed by Yuula Benivolski and Geoffrey…   Read Story »

On the last night of SXSW there were riots at Death From Above 1979's "secret" show, there was Kanye and the G.O.O.D. roster and Jay-Z electrifying a converted power plant, and there was our Last…   Read Story »

In addition to eating tacos, we're doing a couple of unofficial shows at SXSW 2011. We announced our FREE all day/all night Beerland collaboration with Sacred Bones & Chaos In Tejas on Thursday. To…   Read Story »

One of the things we're most proud of this year is The 'Gum Bowl, our inaugural celebrity charity bowling tournament and concert. (You can still watch all the videos, which, you should.) One of our…   Read Story »

Karkwa, a Montreal-based quintet that sings in French, beat out Broken Social Scene, Caribou, Owen Pallett, Shad, Tegan & Sara, The Besnard Lakes, and others for the Polaris Music Prize last…   Read Story »

Toronto's John O'Regan is the 24-year-old behind Diamond Rings, a project pairing visual verve and theatricality with poised, glam synth pop, and a fairly open door for contributions from some of his…   Read Story »

"A Man With No Ankles" is the first track on Owen Pallett's forthcoming A Swedish Love Story EP. The 10" collects four new tracks Pallett recorded quickly (i.e. in a week), unlike the labyrinthine…   Read Story »

This week you can download Owen Pallett's Lewis Takes Off His Shirt EP for free over at Domino USA. The six-song single includes the Heartland version of the song, the previously posted Dan Deacon…   Read Story »