Canadian sisters Tegan and Sara played to a sold out crowd at New York's Bowery Ballroom on Monday night. This show was their first concert back in the US since supporting the Killers on their UK…   Read Story »

Back in the day, when two artists didn't like each other, they'd deal with it in relatively low-profile ways: A snippy backstage comment, or a pointed interview comment. Maybe they'd toss in a…   Read Story »

You might have already heard "Why Even Try," the slinky duet between Theophilus London and Tegan & Sara's Sara Quin. The pair visited Letterman last night to do the song live. I like the band's LVRS…   Read Story »

"Why Even Try" is the first sample from Theophilus London's upcoming EP Lovers Holiday. It's five songs long, and will also include five short stories. "Modern love" is the theme of this song, as…   Read Story »

The other day we posted the Quin sisters' collab track with Tiësto, but that was just a little stopgap until Tegan & Sara release their followup to their great Chris Walla-produced The Con LP. As we…   Read Story »

NAME: Tegan & Sara PROGRESS REPORT: Listening to mixes for their sixth studio album, Sainthood, out October 27. Recorded at Sound City in Van Nuys, CA, and Two Sticks Audio in Seattle, WA. Tegan…   Read Story »

It wouldn't be all that risky to say everyone of a certain age has a Michael Jackson moment. He was a cultural phenomenon on a much larger scale than almost anyone else making music today (in some…   Read Story »

We love year-end lists, it's really a shame that no one made any this month. To remedy that, we asked a handful of our favorite artists what music they dug most over the last twelve months. No Age,…   Read Story »

Not generally. Generally they just shape our lives by being arty and so great to listen to while wearing our tight jeans and other stereotypical things of that nature. I mean very specifically, there…   Read Story »