Owen Pallett is adaptable. If he's performing solo outdoors under cloud cover, he'll seemingly conjure rainstorms while debuting a righteous new tune from his forthcoming Domino debut Heartland; while at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, he'll seamlessly flesh out his tones with the help of a symphony orchestra. That sort of versatility is a prereq...

In addition to including Final Fantasy's justifiably hyperbolic promotional blurb when first posting on the excellently kinetic synth-pop of "Which Song," we added this bit from Ben Jacobs aka Max Tundra himself on the process and equipment used to achieve his tones: The main technology behind this and all of my albums has been the Commodore Ami...

Owen Pallett bravely battles the rain in this epic performance of a new Final Fantasy track, "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt." It'll ostensibly appear on the endlessly delayed (and desired) Heartland. With rain pounding the stage and concerned stage hands telling him to pull the plug and cover cables with plastic, Pallett requests "just let me finish...

NAME: Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy)PROGRESS REPORT: Finishing work on Heartland, his followup to He Poos Clouds.Owen Pallett describes the way he works as "fastidious." "I'm a Virgo, if you're into that sort of thing," he explains. The "way he works" seems to apply not only to recording his followup to 2006's He Poos Clouds, but to his life as we...

Photo by Kirstie ShanleySome might hear an Arcade Fire song-- all that sweeping sincerity and gusto!-- and guess that the band is a little pompous in real life. They're rock'n'roll saviors, dammit! Well, according to Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne, Arcade Fire are actually a lot pompous in real life. At least that's what he told Rolling St...