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Last fall, the great Baltimore art-pop band Future Islands released their album As Long As You Are. Since then, they’v also covered Tina Turner and Colourbox. Right now, Future Islands are gearing up for a massive international tour, including a bunch of fall dates with Modest Mouse. And today, they’ve dropped an extremely cool surprise in the form of a new remix from electro-funk legend Egyptian Lover.
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submitted by Nick May 16th 2012 02:00 pm (stereogum.com)
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 ...
submitted by Nick Feb 23rd 2012 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)
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...
submitted by Nick Feb 7th 2012 07:00 pm (stereogum.com)
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 ...
submitted by Nick Jan 17th 2012 08:00 pm (stereogum.com)
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...
submitted by Nick Jan 11th 2012 11:00 pm (stereogum.com)
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 [...]


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