We’ve heard Tears For Fears cover Arcade Fire and Hot Chip this year, recordings the band undertook to warm up for the making of their first new original LP since 2004′s Everybody Loves A Happy Ending. You can add a third modern indie titan to the list now that the duo has unleashed a cover [...]

Chic, Animal Collective and Bon Iver all included on 20-track collection    

Even taking into account its tendency to melt when left on car dashboards, the cassette probably remains my single favorite music format of all time. So compact! So easy to shoplift! So idiosyncratically wobbly! Such a nice smell when you first open it up! And though tapes are now a fringe connoisseur thing only, the [...]

Animal Collective’s characteristically freaky new video for “Monkey Riches,” an extended wigout from last year’s Centipede Hz, tells the heartwarming story of a maniacal wizard who does phallic things with lengths of rope, and of his hapless assistant, who plunges down a well and into a psychedelic rope-wo...

It’s been almost a year since members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were found guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and sentenced to two years in prison. Despite the wishes of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and countless protests worldwide, two members of the band — Nadezhda...