Tokyo Police Club and Passion Pit are often tour mates, and probably mixtape mates for a great deal of love-starved pubescents. Both bands capture teen regret and anxiety with pitch perfect (and some…   Read Story »

Remix culture was one of the topics of conversation that didn't really make the five-minute cut from that hour-long conversation I had with Alan Palomo and Peter Gabriel -- Peter being an early…   Read Story »

Four years into my Coachella career and I've never experienced an Indio spring so mild. It's a gift from the gods meaning Brooklynites like Scott and I can wear jeans all weekend, a blessing with the…   Read Story »

Last time we checked in with Band To Watch Freelance Whales, they were changing up some of their tracks for a studio performance at Grand Street Recording. Now they've given Brooklyn duo Aislyn a…   Read Story »

Passion Pit's fingerprints are all over this -- that stuttering drum machine beat and keyboard arpeggio are dead giveaways. Two Door Cinema Club themselves employed a drum machine until they added a…   Read Story »

So you've heard "Little Secrets" quite a bit, probably. Passion Pit released a video for the single late last year, but debuted a joyous, higher quality one for the song today. The clip was directed…   Read Story »

Are we all aware of how big Passion Pit is at this point? To put it in some context, they recently played a sold-out three-night run of shows at Terminal 5 in NYC. For those not from NYC, T5 is a…   Read Story »

The Cambridge electro rockers did an official remix of "Telephone," The Fame Monster's most recent single (Feat. Beyoncé). "Would be so better if there wasn't? a fucking chipmunk voice," says a…   Read Story »

When MTV's college-obsessed little sister station mtvU announced the nominations for this year's Woodie Awards, we had some fun trying to make sense of the logic underlying the way in which they had…   Read Story »

Passion Pit's astrologically inclined "Little Secrets" video features a giant disco ball afloat in the Milky Way. The bug-eyed bald guy who lives there takes his diamond-esque rocket for a ride in a…   Read Story »