Hospice, the Antlers’ breakthrough album, was a lot like the ghost that lived in its songs: beautiful, frightening, a little bit stifling. You can’t fault the band for abandoning that heaviness…   Read Story »

Down at SXSW the Antlers showcased Peter Silberman's soaring, fortified falsetto over a new batch of songs that stepped away from Hospice's hospital beds while remaining primed for high-end…   Read Story »

You've had that dream where you lose your teeth. Apparently Peter Silberman has it constantly. "Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out" is the second track we've heard from the Antlers' Burst Apart. It…   Read Story »

Here's the darkly swirling, electro-lined "Parentheses" from the Antlers' sophomore followup to Hospice, Burst Apart. If the word "Radiohead" jumps into your mind while listening, no need to feel…   Read Story »

We've offered our suggestions as to what bands to see this week, now we shift into the bands we are actually seeing. SXSW has begun in earnest, and is earnestly crowded. We'll try to cut through the…   Read Story »

"Kettering" to be exact. The song provides the emotional glue tying together HBO's upcoming offerings, from Avatar to Boardwalk Empire. It even adds a little emotional resonance to the clip from…   Read Story »

This past weekend Larmer Tree Gardens, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, hosted the fifth annual End Of The Road Festival. This year's lineup continued the festival's peripheral deviation from its folk,…   Read Story »

The next installment in the contemporary artists covering classic songs series that brought us Pallett doing Pollard on "Game Of Pricks" -- which by the way, was later Rainn Wilson-approved ("Thank…   Read Story »

The video for their "VCR" had a youthful, romantic storyline, but the xx's "Islands" strikes a different move, and a different pose, but also kind of the same pose, over and over again. You have to…   Read Story »

Keeping with Hospice's album-length theme of frustration and illness (see also "Two" and "Bear"), the Antlers' "Sylvia" clip revolves around a man who keeps seeing, and arguing with, a ghostly…   Read Story »