After watching the recently unearthed footage of Arcade Fire playing a house party in 2002 and a 17-year-old Robin Pecknold covering Radiohead and Simon & Garfunkel, I thought it would be fun to…   Read Story »

R.E.M.'s fifteenth studio album, the twelve-song Jacknife Lee-produced Collapse Into Now, is due in early 2011. SPIN spoke with Mike Mills, who says it'll have a more "expansive" sound than 2008's…   Read Story »

Festivals curated, Arcade Fire beefed, great record released, pants optional: that's how you have a year. And before the page turns on 2009, the Flaming Lips are adding to that list of distinctions…   Read Story »

The Lips had a busy week in Los Angeles, officially releasing Embryonic and freaking out Conan on Tuesday, followed by last night's pop-up store/Q&A/meet and greet/performance at the Ricardo…   Read Story »

In response to being told that "Fuck The Pain Away" allegedly influenced In Rainbows, the electroclash musician tells Out, "Actually once I was at an award show and I had to give Radiohead an award…   Read Story »

Lots of artists you enjoy are covering lots of other artists you enjoy for another tribute album organized by and benefitting War Child, the "network of independent organisations, working across the…   Read Story »

Aphex Twin returned to our headphones via an inspired Andy Samberg/Mahmoud Ahmadinejad affair. If you need another flavor of Richard James in your mouth -- uh, gross -- trip-hop to 100dbs's place,…   Read Story »

Peaches did a Tone L?c remix, so a pretty great, unpretentious song by a lovable, frog-voiced spitter's been made into ... a Peaches song. Wasn't electroclash supposed to be dead? That said, it's fun…   Read Story »

Our favorite cigar-smoking muthaflippin' princess has had herself a rough week, starting with the Rubinoos' claim that "Girlfriend" ripped off a song of theirs, to which Avril replied via forum post…   Read Story »