Philadelphia duo Pattern Is Movement are about to release their unclassifiable third album All Together. Looking too deeply into childhood influences can get dicey, but maybe some of Andrew…   Read Story »

In addition to shooting a ton of performances in Austin last week, we subjected many of our favorite acts to Texas music trivia. You saw part one. In this follow-up, we test the smarts of Islands, My…   Read Story »

You don't need us to tell you that if you want to see R.E.M. tonight you should have started lining up at Stubb's two days ago. Also you know how big these SXSW crowds are getting every year. The…   Read Story »

No more pussyfooting -- it's SXSW time. The day parties are starting like now. Since those of you that are Austin bound will spend your daylight hours Thursday-Saturday at Volume for the…   Read Story »

Friday night we made the trek out to Union Hall in Brooklyn to help our friends at Gothamist celebrate five fine years of broadcasting NYC news into our RSS readers. Congrats, -ists. Of course, it…   Read Story »

Well that didn't take long. The first single from Pattern Is Movement's forthcoming, untitled, and awesome LP, "Right Away," came via 7" on December 11th. The first cover of it comes now. Athens, GA…   Read Story »

By Amrit See a show to help ring in 2008? It's usually a pretty safe bet -- you get your big countdown, to be surrounded by strangers within a somewhat controlled environment, and (as long as it's…   Read Story »

Pattern Is Movement deserve your worship. If you like unorthodox, polyrhytmic pop music that pushes back. Last night's party at Cake Shop -- in celebration of the well documented return of the mighty…   Read Story »