It was way back in June that Spoon released Got Nuffin, a brief collection that gave us our first taste of Transference via the dusky, percussive rocker that gave the EP its name. A couple of weeks later we heard a live take of "Is Love Forever?. At the time we said it sounded like more chaotic, dubbed-out early Joe Jackson. A couple of weeks af...

For those heading uptown Friday night to NYC's American Museum Of Natural History Friday, site of the FADER-presented Animal Collective DJ set/One Step Beyond party, the onstage visual was 33% true to Animal Collective onstage visuals of the past year -- Geologist crouched over a table of equipment, less one Noah Lennox and one Avey Tare. It was...

According to figures released this morning by the Official Charts Company, Rage Against The Machine are still on course to bag the Christmas Number One.The band’s track, Killing In The Name, has sold a grand total of 253,476 copies this week, where as X Factor winner Joe McElderry has only sold 216,795, despite his single being released on CD ...

After this morning, we were an album cover closer to Spoon's Transference in all its anticipated glory. In posting it Brandon likened collecting the various promo bits to piecing together a puzzle, so it's somewhat fitting the album's first single has a title promising a riddle. We first heard this one after last year's festivals where folks wer...

We've talked a bit about Spoon's anticipated seventh album Transference, the band's followup to 2007's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: You've seen the 11-song tracklist, heard some of its sounds via earlier live and later studio takes, and may have watched a teaser. Puzzles have multiple pieces... This morning we're officially giving you (and everyone else) the...