When he's not busy with the chaotic power-pop collective that he ostensibly leads, New Pornographers frontman A.C. Newman releases music under his own name. This fall, he'll release Shut Down The…   Read Story »

Indie rock heads have a well-documented soft spot for the great California studio-rock crew Fleetwood Mac, and a new tribute album called Just Tell Me That You Want Me: Tribute To Fleetwood Mac will…   Read Story »

Lately, in the wake of the master's triumphantly bedraggled new album Old Ideas, lots of people have been covering Leonard Cohen: Cass McCombs, Field Music, Bill Callahan, Bradford Cox, Greg Dulli.…   Read Story »

It'll be hard to top the Tom Scharpling-directed clip for "News," but the New Pornographers take it super sci-fi in the animated clip for "Up In The Dark," which definitely involves interstellar…   Read Story »

Last night while watching something on TV (Stewart or Colbert or Breaking Bad are my only options these days, so one of those) I heard a lady rhapsodizing about T-Mobile's "best deal ever," and then…   Read Story »

This week we've got a lot of new videos-- clips from Wale, Toro Y Moi, the New Pornographers, Damian Marley and Nas, the Black Keys, and Modest Mouse, among others. The Tyler, The Creator video is…   Read Story »

The Best Show on WFMU's Tom Scharpling got the nod to direct the New Pornographers' video for "Moves," which consequently features some of the more notable Friends Of Tom in the Coming Attraction for…   Read Story »

The Belle & Sebastian-curated ATP Bowlie 2 took place earlier this week (December 10-12) at Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead. (In 1999 B&S curated The Bowlie Weekender, which ultimately…   Read Story »

So that happened. It'll take a few days of drying out and shutting eyes to come to terms with all that transpired in Las Vegas this weekend, though in the spirit of Matador's three-day, boozy, purely…   Read Story »

This past weekend Larmer Tree Gardens, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, hosted the fifth annual End Of The Road Festival. This year's lineup continued the festival's peripheral deviation from its folk,…   Read Story »