This week at the IFC Center in NYC, Oscilloscope Labs presents the opening run of its latest critically acclaimed film, Only The Young. (Get tickets here, film folk. It looks nice!) It focuses on…   Read Story »

El-P and Islands' Nick Diamonds are no stranger to collaboration -- most recently, see "Stay Down" from El's excellent Cancer For Cure, or that screengrab above from their joint stop by Letterman's…   Read Story »

In 2011, the Internet exploded with subscription-based streaming services. Google, iTunes and Amazon all wanted a piece of that magic digital jukebox in the sky. But the game changer was Spotify. Fan…   Read Story »

Today, the brand new Brooklyn-based label Young One announced its formation, and it's already got a small but seriously impressive roster: Bay Area cloud-rap pioneers Main Attrakionz, wide-eyed…   Read Story »

At this point, it's pretty expected for every big indie rock type to make the late-night rounds whenever a new record drops. But there's still a transgressive charge to seeing El-P, patron saint of…   Read Story »

"Mr. Hollywood" is the debut single from the Magic, a group that consists of Islands brothers Geordie and Evan Gordon, who hail from Guelph, Ontario and create bubbling, clean-sounding indie rock in…   Read Story »

This week, we ran into a bit of a problem as it pertains to this list: For some reason, YouTube embed aren't rendering when we put them in. We're not sure why that is, but we're looking to fix it.…   Read Story »

In the video for Islands' jumpy, jittery quasi-pop song "Hallways," frontman Nick Thorburn is surprised to find himself singing for a band of marionette skeletons, but he gradually gets into it. The…   Read Story »

Since announcing plans for a new album last October, the Islands' Nick Thorburn has given us "Hallways" and "This Is Not A Song" (proving, indeed, one man is the Islands). Now, the entirety of A…   Read Story »

A Sleep & A Forgetting, the new album from Nick Thorburn's Islands crew, is a month away from release, and first single "This Is Not A Song" -- which is, paradoxically, a song -- is already floating…   Read Story »