At this point, it’s pretty expected for every big indie rock type to make the late-night rounds whenever a new record drops. But there’s still a transgressive charge to seeing El-P, patron saint of New York noise-rap, stopping by to see fellow redhead David Letterman on network TV last night. El brought Islands frontman Nick ...

In the video for Islands’ jumpy, jittery quasi-pop song “Hallways,” frontman Nick Thorburn is surprised to find himself singing for a band of marionette skeletons, but he gradually gets into it. The skeleton puppet effects are just awesome, and there’s a fun surprise ending that I’d rather not gi...

Since announcing plans for a new album last October, the Islands’ Nick Thorburn has given us “Hallways” and “This Is Not A Song” (proving, indeed, one man is the Islands). Now, the entirety of A Sleep & A Forgetting is streaming. Head below to hear it. (via Vulture) A Sleep & A ...

A Sleep & A Forgetting, the new album from Nick Thorburn’s Islands crew, is a month away from release, and first single “This Is Not A Song” — which is, paradoxically, a song — is already floating out there in the ether. Now, please enjoy the catchy, piano-based album track “Ha...

A big week for former Roxy Music leader Bryan Ferry! Newsday reports that the dapper, 66-year-old glam veteran got married, for the second time, to 29-year-old Amanda Sheppard on January 4. The ceremony went down on the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Caribbean territory that I’ve never heard of. Only true iconoclasts, it should [...]