Mar 28, 2014 By Lily Moayeri Jimi Goodwin

A new Doves album may not be in the cards in the near future, but the group’s frontman, Jimi Goodwin, has broken out on his own for his debut solo record, Odludek, which was released this week on Heavenly Recordings.

Mar 26, 2014 By Lily Moayeri Web Exclusive

Kyle Wilson, central focus of the New York-based Milagres, is aging backwards. The now-beardless prolific songwriter sits in his living room, its walls adorned with framed posters as random as an Andy Warhol movie poster to that of the Next Wave Festival, a music festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from the ‘80s.

Mar 25, 2014 By Lily Moayeri Temples

In-demand foursome Temples is on its way to check in at a hotel in Berlin, post-soundcheck for a gig—one of five in a row. Hot on the heels of the release of the quartet’s hugely anticipated debut album,Sun Structures, the group is either gigging or promoting, making the whole experience a jumbled whirlwind.

Mar 21, 2014 By Stephen Humphries Elbow

According to Guy Garvey, Elbow‘s new record includes “wide-eyed, youthful, optimistic celebrations of travel.” Not for nothing is the album titled The Take Off and Landing of Everything.

Mar 20, 2014 By Laura Studarus Peter Bjorn and John

Peter Morén, Björn Yttling, and John Eriksson (better known as Peter Bjorn and John) have been friends for over a decade and a half, and have been making music together for almost as long. Still, as bassist/keyboardist Yttling explains, that doesn’t always translate to a smooth working environment.

Mar 19, 2014 By Chris Tinkham Charli XCX

As warmly as Charli XCX‘s 2013 debut LP, True Romance, was received by fans and critics, the English singer/songwriter wanted to streamline the writing and recording process for her follow-up album, tentatively set for June release.

Mar 18, 2014 By Matt Fink Panda Bear

Nirvana, Frank Sinatra, J Dilla—those were the three artists Noah Lennox named as the main influences for his fourth full-length solo album, 2011’s Tomboy. Of course, if you could hear any of those three acts in that album’s stripped-down blend of blissed-out psychedelic pop and drone/dub production techniques, you were probably listening to a different album or under the influence of heavy pharmaceuticals.

Mar 12, 2014 By Matt Fink Liars

Despite the fact that Liars first came to notoriety as representatives of New York’s early 2000s dance-punk scene, they’ve never really made music fit for the dance floor. Too eccentric, too chaotic, too misanthropic—their albums have placed them firmly on the margins, forming an idiosyncratic catalog of sounds that are constantly changing in tone and texture while largely remaining the same in spirit.

Mar 11, 2014 By Dan Lucas Mac DeMarco

“I’ve already got in trouble from my label for giving details…they might castrate me!” says Mac DeMarco several months before the release of Salad Days, his second full-length album under his own name.