This four-song In The Fall 12″ is a great warm-up for synthesized North Carolina-to-Baltimore “post wave” trio Future Islands super second album In Evening Air. They’re like seasoned, salty ’80s UK veterans though they formed in Greenville, NC in 2003. The songs are dense, catchy, depressed, ecst...

Michael Cera in a music video for the Islands directed by TV Carnage? Sounds like someone is getting all his ducks in a row before officially announcing his run for King of Bushwick! And that person is Michael Cera.

You got more than enough Animal Collective in 2009, but Deacon, formerly known as Deakin, and known to his family/friends as Josh Dibb, was absent from Merriweather Post Pavilion and its ensuing full-court press. He offered up remixes, but that was that. While you were nursing a hangover, though, Dibb performed a set of solo material at Baltimor...

Reuters - "Vapours," the title of Islands' third full-length album, materialized after a particularly boisterous show last year in Switzerland. After his opening set, Los Angeles rapper Subtitle watched the Montreal indie-pop band put on a dazzling performance.

LP3 (out Tuesday on ANTI-) finds Nick Thorburn reunited with Jamie Thompson on drum machines and sequencers. In January Nick told us, "It's a very stripped down affair, with minimal instrumentation and sparse arrangements. This is not Arm's Way II." Listen here.