On the day of their last show opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Derek Miller of Sleigh Bells stepped out into the Philadelphia sunshine wearing a Nirvana T-shirt...

Sleigh Bells closed their two-week tour opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers with an incendiary set in Philadelphia, and we were there. Afterwards, the...

Our week of revolution might be over, but the spirit of uprise is still strong around us. The Mynabirds premiered their latest track yesterday on Rolling Stone, and...

Zedd's coming, and your club banging may never be the same. For his debut full-length, tentatively to be released in the fall on pal Skrillex' OWSLA label, the bass...

Brel, Fontaine, Gainsbourg, and now...Brigitte. It's not every album that makes you think of Nashville swing and Montmartre in the same melody, but that's the magic...

Lianna La Havas has pipes, and she's taken her soulful show on the road. That's the takeaway from her latest music video, for "Is Your Love Big Enough," which Lianne...

The Brooklyn arena-rock-Enya group Yeasayer are putting out their latest album since 2010's Odd Blood on August 21st on Secretly Canadian. "Henrietta," a slow-down...

We've got your indie summer anthem right here. "Honolulu," the first single off Last Dinosaurs' debut LP (download free here), tinkles in with a gentle wash of guitar...

Absolut and Forwar:d's Encore! Sessions bills itself as "the most exclusive concert series in America," and I'd be making jokes right now (is there an exclusivity index...

Mmmmm, get ready for a sugar rush! Amanda Mair, sensitive Swedish songstress, melted us with her swoon-worthy melodies and piano tinkling at our MTV IGGY Live...

Stoking the flames of our Diplo desire, the Phily-via-Florida production whiz has just dropped his version of a slow jam. Meaning not that slow at all, really. But...

Twin Atlantic’s huge rock sound have bewitched UK audiences from Glasgow to London, and they’re currently working on American domination. Their debut full-length Free...

Over the course of these early milleni-teens, I've seen a long line of artists doing that "alone, singing up there with loops and laptop" thing. And to be totally,...

Augggggggggh! To think that I ONLY caught this news because I'm starting to grow up and actually read my Twitter feed. But BANDA UÓ,  the tecnobrega trio that brought us...

I’m not sure if there’s a way for me to articulate the awesome that is about to happen to the globe. Do you remember 2007? I know you don’t, but play along. 2007 is when...

Our Brazilian boy Emicida keeps blasting through milestones. Today he's announced that American video game RockStar, who also made the hit game "GTA," will be using his...

Based in Seoul, concert promoter Sean Maylone of Supercolorsuper has broken open the Korean market, introducing rabid indie fans to the likes of Toro y Moi, Fucked up,...

Name: Aluna George Genre: post-R&B popstep. Most like: oOoOo, Neptunes, The Weeknd Sounds like: A future civilization of music video dancers discovers Timbaland...

The hashtag #letthemplay dotted the Twitterscape from April 14th through 17th last month, as English musician Quantic staged an online campaign to get visas for his...

Nadine Shah's only available song will make you sit up and go, 'Where did this gothic voice come from?' Well: she grew up on rocky cliff looking onto England's North...