It's been nearly four years since the Juan Maclean dropped the kinda underrated glittering synth opus Less Than Human on us (and even longer since he abused guitars under his real name, John MacLean, as a member of Providence noise OGs Six Finger Satellite). Since then, Maclean's kept pretty busy: DJing virtually every DFA event in New York, r...

Say what you will about Brendan O'Brien, the producer who manned the boards for the overpacked Rising, the slick Devils & Dust, and the unbalanced Magic, but he knows how to juggle the E Street Band members. On this second song from Springsteen's upcoming Working on a Dream, O'Brien seems intent on capturing the momentum of a live perfor...

DCFC's third Narrow Stairs video is for bouncy, upbeat "No Sunlight," the album's most obvious single contender. This clip imagines the song's title literally, inviting us on the night vision journey of a young boy through his neighborhood of like-minded daysleepers. The band's not in it, but we do meet night owls doing errands and playing sport...

Hip-hop's sleeper romance with eminently deserving London boundary-smasher M.I.A. is a fun thing to behold. The love affair probably peaked, profile-wise anyway, with Kanye West's lackluster appropriation of Kala's Clash-sampling "Paper Planes" for T.I.'s "Swagger Like Us", with such famous swaggerers as Jay-Z and Lil Wayne. But this has been a ...

Noise/Sanctuary Records announce the release of the new studio album Wake The Sleeper from the hard rock legends Uriah Heep