Radio Happy Hour is a live murder mystery / comedy hour done in the style of an old radio program. They do it every couple months at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge. Past guests have included David Bazan (covering Vic Chestnutt), Andrew W.K., Michael Showalter, Tunde Adebimpe, and, last month, Nick Thorburn. He performed solo, [...]

Active Child has announced that he will be touring the US in support of Islands and Steel Phantoms.

Hot Chip did that cover of Shakira’s “She Wolf.” Now the Colombian warbler’s dipped filtering the work of some British folks with keyboards through her distinctive post-Alanis sound. Instead of returning Hot Chip’s favor and giving us “One Life Stand,” though, she’s ...

The chiming, upbeat psychedelia of “Natural Selection,” UNKLE’s collaboration with onetime BTW Black Angels, contrasts with “Caged Bird,” an especially sinister Where Did The Night Fall track. Celebration’s Katrina Ford ably handles the vocals. A couple of weeks ago we heard her croonin...

Future Islands’ In Evening Air is a great album that’s unexpectedly become something I listen to almost once daily. (Actually, maybe me liking smart, shaggy, sorta dark DIY new wave isn’t unexpected.) At the end of March I posted “In The Fall” from the four-song In The Fall 12″, a tease...