During its four years of existence, the now-defunct Fashion Meets Music Festival played out like a longform Fyre Fest for Columbus residents. Despite regular boasts about "putting Columbus on the map" and such, it amounted to little more than a spectacle to be cackled at, one that probably ultimately did more damage to the city's…

This year alone, Adult Swim's Singles series has given us new tracks from Future Islands, Sleep, Thundercat, the Voidz, Tim Hecker, Pallbearer, Washed Out, Power Trip, and more. And now Adult Swim is closing out the seventh edition of their annual program with a new one from Flying Lotus, who's performing at the Hollywood Bowl…

This weekend, just as the annual Northside festival was going down in Brooklyn, New York, the similarly named NorthSide festival was taking place thousands of miles away in Aarhus, Denmark. Björk, Future Islands, the War On Drugs, Thundercat, Queens Of The Stone Age, Tyler The Creator, Liam Gallagher, Rostam, the Internet, Earl Sweatshirt, Deer...

Islands in the Stream. Dolly Parton has landed her own anthology TV series based on her most popular songs which will be available on …Continue reading »The post Dolly Parton receives her own Netflix series based on hit songs appeared first on NME.

If there is any such thing as a bad Future Islands song, I haven't heard it. The Baltimore synthpop greats are now more than a decade into a career that's taken them from dank, cramped DIY spaces to the mainstages of some of our biggest festivals. Last year, they released the very good new album…