... and then it was 2011. Hopefully your New Year's celebration involved doing something more celebratory than being berated by a solo Ariel Pink from a makeshift stage in a Bushwick warehouse, and…   Read Story »

A couple of Best Videos Of The Week ago I mentioned how nearly every good clip that week was too long, too nude, or too violent to make it on to MTV; one was even removed from YouTube, verification…   Read Story »

This week's clips from Arcade Fire, Rokysopp, Simian Mobile Disco, No Joy, and White Lies show off what's possible when your videos don't have to fit particular television formats and time limits.…   Read Story »

So we've heard "Echoes" and "Flashover." Here are two more songs from Klaxons's upcoming album Surfing The Void: (via Vulture and Some Kind Of Awesome) Surfing The Void is out 8/23 via…   Read Story »

In which the Brit new ravers rock out in the desert. (Or on a different planet?) Surfing The Void is out 8/23 via Polydor.   Read Story »

We've seen Surfing The Void's ridiculous cat-in-space cover (re-posted above for your convenience) and listened to the album's aggressive first single "Flashover." This newbie, "Echoes," isn't a Pink…   Read Story »

"LOL." Yours? Surfing The Void is out 8/23 via Polydor. Here's its first single, "Flashover," for which Klaxons' sense of humor seems to have been lost to "the overmind":   Read Story »

Klaxons' second album, following 2007's much-ballyhooed Myths Of The Near Future, is tentatively titled Surfing The Void. It was produced by Korn/Slipknot/Limp Bizkit/Sepultura/Machine Head/At the…   Read Story »

All four original members of Jane's Addiction performed together for the first time in too long at the El Rey last night. The occasion was the NME Awards USA, where the legendary LA band accepted a…   Read Story »

Last night the New Music Express held their annual Shockwaves Awards and gave repeated thumbs up to the usual suspects like Arctic Monkeys (three times over: Best Band, Track, Video), the Killers…   Read Story »