At the Laneway Festival in Singapore this past weekend, Girls frontman Christopher Owens paid tribute to the fallen Whitney Houston by playing a solo version of "I Will Always Love You," the Dolly…   Read Story »

Back in the day, when two artists didn't like each other, they'd deal with it in relatively low-profile ways: A snippy backstage comment, or a pointed interview comment. Maybe they'd toss in a…   Read Story »

Our annual list of late night television's best performances has quickly become an annual exercise in big-upping Jimmy Fallon's music talent booker. Way to go, person responsible for pointing those…   Read Story »

It's been fun, but now it's time to wrap up the Gummy Awards with the big final list: your picks for the year's top 10 albums! And the final result is: You guys more or less agree with us! Every…   Read Story »

The next stop on the Gummys express is Your Top 20 Indie Rock Crushes Of 2011; ten females, ten males, one Gosling. Hit the gallery to check out the winners of this award, truly the people's…   Read Story »

Today we begin rolling out the results of this year's Gummy Awards: The only set of lists which are perfectly impervious to comment section backlash as they are voted upon by you, the esteemed Shut…   Read Story »

Recently anointed with the best album of the year, Girls delved deep into Orange County stopping off at the sonically and cosmetically remodeled Galaxy theater. Crowd surfing ensued as the band ran…   Read Story »

2011 was the year music learned to float. Actually, that's not true at all; music has been reaching for feelings of tidal drift since the first Gregorian monks figured out how to chant, or maybe…   Read Story »

Girls are the latest band to take part in the "For No One" video series, in which artists play their songs for an audience of zero (cameramen not included). In their edition, the San Francisco band…   Read Story »

Girls' lead singer Christopher Owens, who is basically a song factory, announced that his band was readying a single called "Lawrence" last week, and now that track is available to stream. Recorded…   Read Story »