The lineup for Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner’s Eaux Claires festival is here, and as you might expect, it’s both charming and formidable. Bon Iver will headline — their first live performance since November 2012 — alongside the National, Sufjan Stevens, and Spoon. Vernon’s fellow folk-rockers t...

Alabama’s beachfront Hangout Festival would probably be a good time even if the bands were terrible — it’s a music festival on the beach — but the lineup is usually solid too, and this year’s fest is no exception. We already knew Foo Fighters, Beck, Future Islands, Father John Misty, Skrillex, Sp...

Track is band's first since 'They Want My Soul' album release last year

With the press cycle for They Want My Soul slowing down, I wasn’t expecting to hear any new Spoon songs for a very long time, but it turns out the band debuted a new song called “Satellite” in Houston just before the new year. It’s a nervous, melancholy, noisy piece of work that manages to [...]

Spoon’s shimmering groove “Inside Out” and Dej Loaf’s twinkling Detroit rap hit “Try Me” are two of the songs that snuck up on us the hardest as this past summer drew to a close. And now, in the grand tradition of their Taylor Swift/Kendrick Lamar and Future/Future Islands mash-ups, Chi...