Staying close with childhood friends is hard. Staying close with childhood friends while being in one of the most painfully vulnerable bands on earth is even harder.
Before Irv Teibel, listening to nature meant leaving the house. Here’s the story of the man who brought the rain, thunder, and crickets to your stereo, one satisfied, relaxed customer at a time.
Somewhere between sadness and absurdity lies the stark art of Majical Cloudz. Jenn Pelly traces their unlikely path—from tear-jerking house shows to playing massive arenas with Lorde—as they prepare to release a new album.
Thanks to his gap-toothed smirk and carefree tunes, Mac DeMarco has quickly become the goofball prince of indie rock. But now he wants to be taken seriously—while still reserving the right to crack a fart joke if necessary.
With their third album, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser continue to chase their psych-rock whims while falling deeper into a musical abyss that's as goofy as it is dark. Will their legion of neon-clad followers come along for the ride?
Praised by big thinkers like Prince and OutKast, Janelle Monáe wants to expand the boundaries of R&B-- but first she'll need to find a way outside of her own head.
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again.
In an era of endless distraction, this London quartet wants to focus our fleeting attention with guitars and drums and fury. Turn away at your own risk.
Aaron Leitko trails garage-punk prodigy Ty Segall on the road as he tries to reconcile the past, present, and future of rock, along with his own divided self.
With The Haunted Man, Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan transcends the cosmic fairy tales of her past to uncover an ecstatic peace within herself. It wasn't easy.
Visionary? Charlatan? Doomsayer? A dispatch from Ariel Pink's warped world.
Inside the brilliant and troubled mind of Passion Pit leader Michael Angelakos