ANTHEM

These New Puritans may be working the clubs on their side of the Atlantic once again, but we caught them for their final North American show in L.A. o...

07/02/08 - 0 comments

In this writer's humble opinion, Beck should've never teamed up with Danger Mouse (a.k.a. Hipster Timbaland). Beck, once the most notorious mad scient...

07/01/08 - 0 comments

British kraut-/prog-rock revivalists, Fujiya & Miyagi are finally back with a new single, "Knickerbocker," and word of a "sophomore" LP, Lightbulbs, o...

07/01/08 - 0 comments

New York City's the Virgins were featured as one of our bands to watch last year, and look how far the quartet's come in such a short span of time! ...

06/30/08 - 0 comments

The great Escalator Records of Tokyo, Japan, recently created an imprint label, Every Conversation, specifically for releasing Western music. Escalato...

06/30/08 - 0 comments

While Anthony Gonzalez was in L.A. on tour, Anthem pulled him away for an hour to show him one of our finest graveyards. The car ride was a pleasure, ...

06/28/08 - 0 comments

Through an ambitious and bizarre chain of events, we wound up flying a custom-made kite with Tokyo's Cornelius in front L.A.'s Disney Hall. The exp...

06/28/08 - 0 comments

Sweden is a misinterpreted country. We like to imagine that musicians from the small Scandinavian nation are simply pop innovators like American a...

06/26/08 - 0 comments

Labrador Records—always a generous label—is giving away a thirty-track Summer sampler of new and forthcoming releases. The Swedish company behind ...

06/24/08 - 0 comments

For a while there, D.F.A. Records was in limbo. What initially started as a James Murphy's vanity project of unheard of proportions became a monotonou...

06/23/08 - 0 comments