This is a special Depeche Mode photo set Andrew Youssef delivered: there are no photos of Dave Gahan with his shirt off! Increyable. The singer's recent illness forced the band to cancel a spate of…   Read Story »

The Swede poppers made headlines for the wrong reasons at SXSW, but the new album remains a charming departure from Writer's Block. Try the Graceland-nodding title track, dig on the rest at MySpace.   Read Story »

What we have here is an intimate, sensitive, doe-eyed performance of "Le Petit Coeur" -- the French-peppered The Last Tycoon tune we first heard as a demo -- shot in Morén's apartment. Not entirely…   Read Story »

In addition to shooting a ton of performances in Austin last week, we subjected many of our favorite acts to Texas music trivia. You saw part one. In this follow-up, we test the smarts of Islands, My…   Read Story »

As previously mentioned, Peter Morén brought a blissful, mellow close to the opening day of our Volume party. Tunes from his prematurely enjoyed Last Tycoon sounded great live, especially with the…   Read Story »

Interested in filling a rock club to the rafters? Simple: Just have Nada Surf and Destroyer play back to back sometime. People were stuffed asses to elbows at Volume night club for the first day of…   Read Story »

We'll be honest: When we booked Peter for our SXSW party, it was without regard to his solo stuff. We hadn't heard but a few old demos but that didn't matter -- we're Peter Bjorn & John fans. This…   Read Story »

If you're a party hopper, today is your day. Well if you allow us to be biased for a minute ... you probably should head to Volume for our party (My Brightest Diamond, Nada Surf, Destroyer, Peter…   Read Story »

As we mentioned, when discussing the demos at Peter Morén's MySpace, he sounds a tad sad without Bjorn and John. He also sounds wordy. And like Wham!. And Robyn Hitchcock (especially Eye). Recorded…   Read Story »

So, we're pretty excited. Three days, great bands, free drinks all day, new club on 6th St. (right next door to Emo's). There go all your excuses not to be there. More info? This way... Here's…   Read Story »