The 2010 bill-sharing Reading & Leeds Festivals, scheduled for 8/27-29 in those respective cities, will feature Guns N' Roses, Arcade Fire and Blink-182 as headliners, along with QOTSA, Paramore,…   Read Story »

Modest Mouse fans might've caught Portland's Mimicking Birds when they opened for the band last year. The connection doesn't stop there: The trio also recorded their self-titled debut in the home…   Read Story »

Not sure if musicians and comedians preternaturally get along together. But they definitely both hate cancer. So maybe this benefit for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society was more of a…   Read Story »

The Pitchfork annual, scheduled for 7/16-18 at Union Park in Chicago, will also feature LCD Soundsystem, Raekwon, Here We Go Magic, St. Vincent, Lightning Bolt, Cass McCombs and Sleigh Bells, among…   Read Story »

When the All Tomorrow's Parties festival first launched, the idea of canonizing an iconic album with a track-for-track live performance was still a novel concept. A decade later the album-recreation…   Read Story »

When we were deep in No One's First And You're Next mode, I called "Whale Song" the most interesting material from the collection. It's also a track that reminded a bunch of you of one of our…   Read Story »

At Seattle's biggest music festival, rain is not unexpected; still, the downpours at Bumbershoot '09 were scary even for this neck of the Pacific Northwest. No bands got electrocuted, but the sound…   Read Story »

There's been much talk and speculation regarding the Heath Ledger-directed video for No One's First, And You're Next's "King Rat." The EP's out today, and so is Ledger's clip. As the seemingly…   Read Story »

The band's putting out a new 7" on 7/21, "Perpetual Motion Machine" b/w "History Sticks To Your Feet." The latter's a relatively bright, bendy guitar rocker that teases (but then backs off of) being…   Read Story »

So far it seem like folks' favorite No One's First And You're Next-related track was the slippery 6-minute "Whale Song." Well satisfied fans, the mid-tempo Big Easy horn howler "Perpetual Motion…   Read Story »