Now that "The Wire" is over and "Entourage" has entered the "absolutely sucking" stage of its existence, there are very few reasons to subscribe to HBO. There's "Eastbound & Down", there's the vague chance that Will Ferrell will decide to tape another...

Talking to Pitchfork back in May, Shins frontman James Mercer explained why keyboardist Marty Crandall and drummer Jesse Sandoval were no longer in the band. "It's an aesthetic decision," said Mercer, not elaborating much.

Artist: Aloha Album: Home Acres Release Date: March 9 Label: Polyvinyl Tracklist: 01 Building a Fire 02 Moonless March 03 Microviolence 04 Searchlight 05 Everything Goes My Way 06 White Wind 07 Cold Storage 08 Blackout 09 Waterwheel 10 I'm...

Spencer Krug is having a busy year. First Swan Lake, the side project he shares with Destroyer's Dan Bejar and Frog Eyes' Carey Mercer, released their Enemy Mine album. Then Sunset Rubdown, the outfit he fronts, dropped the BNM'ed Dragonslayer. (No...

Before they head out on a U.S. tour with Hot Chip come April, sultry electro-rock quartet trio the xx are now set to do seven American dates with fellow lowercase, double-lettered group jj starting in March. These shows mark the first U.S. live...

-- Band of Horses, Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, Against Me!'s Tom Gabel, and Black Rebel Motorcycle club are some of the acts playing "stripped-down" sets at a benefit gig for tomorrow, November 21, at Hollywood's Avalon. Proceeds go to the...

As previously reported, Merge has just reissued Neutral Milk Hotel's two albums, 1996's On Avery Island and 1998's stone classic In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, on 180-gram vinyl. To mark the occasion, the folks at Merge have posted two live Neutral...