According to Wikipedia, Crystal Antlers’ original line-up of Kevin Stuart, Errol Davis and Jonny Bell worked together as chimney sweeps around the time of the band’s formation.

Doctor Who is held up to a ridiculously high standard by fans. It’s accepted with most shows that not every episode of every season is going to be amazing, but some Whovians seem to expect a classic every week.

Fans of Cut Copy who are expecting more of the brilliant and addictive dance-pop they’re known for will not be disappointed in their fourth album, Free Your Mind.

Few British bands walk the indie walk as devotedly as Los Campesinos!. Since releasing their debut LP Hold On Now, Youngster... in 2008, the Cardiff-bred sextet have continued to roam the music industry’s less resplendent echelons without feeling the need to compromise their direction of travel for commercial success (give or take appearing on a few actual commercials).

Didier, a rugged bluegrass musician (Johan Heldenbergh) walks into a tattoo parlor to flirt with Elise, the charming ink artist (Veerle Baetens) working the counter. They fall in love immediately; she moves into the camper parked outside the derelict farmhouse he’s inherited and becomes the singer in his band.

If London’s alternative music scene were anthropomorphized, there is every chance that it would look like Kieran Hebden. A scruffy, bookish-looking guy in his mid-30s, based in the trendy Shoreditch/Daltson East End of England’s capital city, creating danceable but distinctly under the radar music that appeals—broadly speaking—to the major cities’ liberal intelligentsia.

Make no bones about it—Blind Boys of Alabama are an American gospel institution. Coming from these longstanding delegates of the genre, even a slapdash record of tried and true gospel songs would still have shifted its fair share of units.

“Don’t let me die, don’t let me die, don’t let me die,” Sky Ferreira joked nervously during her headlining show at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday night. The singer, celebrating the release of her long-delayed debut LP, Night Time, My Time, had knocked over her tea and water while interacting with the fans up front during “24 Hours,” the song on her album with the catchiest hook. Ferreira, still relatively new to performing live, began to dwell on the possibility of being electrocuted by the combination of liquid and stage gear.

If we can agree on one thing about Arcade Fire‘s latest, the record’s rollout has been nothing short of bizarre, between formalwear-required preview performances, numerous teaser snippets, and the gonzo, celebrity-packed television special. Now, we can finally peel back the mirrorball-like wrapping and find out if Reflektor lives up to its mystique.