I’ve been sitting on the new track from Final Fantasy for some time now. In the most pleasant, skittish and adventurous way, master strings man Owen Pallett unites every aspect of the video game inspired …

“R.I.P. Mash-ups, we’ll miss your forced titular ironies.” So began yesterday’s “Mash-up Genre Raises Hell in Heaven” article on Idolator. Not long ago I was invited to help out as an infrequent guest …

The recently released video for Arctic Monkeys’ “Fluorescent Adolescent” brings a couple of unusual thoughts to mind. I’ve never been one to have an outlandish fear of clowns but when they’re kicking the bloody …

Klaxons recently released a video for “It’s Not Over Yet” from the band’s Myths of a Near Future album; one which still stands up as one of the finest of the year thus far. …

“Familj” offers itself up as one of the most harmonic tracks from Dungen’s recent Tio Bitar release. The song maintains a psychedelic posture reminiscent to that of modern documentarians attempting to recapture history and …

After taking some time extensively purging my hard drive of one time jukebox necessities I came across The Headstones‘ catalog, one of my all time favorite bands.  Having not lived in Canada for the better …

[by Ryan Dunn]
Formed in 1997, the Unknown Prophets began as two MCs Big Jess and Mad Son, friends who went to school together in Northeast Minneapolis. A year later the duo added Willy Lose, one …

The release of Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky has brought about a wide variety of news, criticisms and all around general banter – all of which have added to the (lack of) myth surrounding its release. …

The new Polyphonic Spree video was just released and it reflects a dearly underutilized method of visual arts. The director Hal Samples took over 70,000 photos over the span of ten days and used …

[by Dom Davis]
It’s unfortunate that “buzz bands” generally affect me in the exact opposite way their acclaim storm is supposed too. More often than not I’m left confused, making many earnest attempts to discover just …

In this day and age, releasing an album called Drums and Guns is bound to lead to some misconceptions. In fact, the title of Low’s eighth full-length record sounds like the perfect vehicle for …

Though I myself am not entirely certain on what post-Renaissance rock may mean, it is possibly be the best way of describing Rasputina’s cello-centric brand of arena rock. Having been a fan of the …