In a live session for VEVO, Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos did a piano cover of fun.’s “Carry On” backed by four female singers. The session seems to be for a series called Unexpected Covers and while Passion Pit’s and fun.’s main demographics do differ, there’s no way the margi...

Remix kingpins Passion Pit have flipped Portugal. The Man’s track “Purple Yellow Red & Blue” from the recent Danger Mouse-produced LP Evil Friends. The original is storm cloud indie pop — seriously, check out this super creepy video — but when Passion Pit gets their hands on it, they mai...

When the weather is right, there are few places in this country that cultivate a vibe of outdoor-festival revelry quite like the city of Revere. And given the terrible turn taken at the city’s signature gathering earlier this year, it brings us a lot of joy to report that Boston Calling, the music festival that [...]

The first considerations when attending a music festival on the beach are sartorial. Do you opt for filp-flops to facilitate the inevitable footwear removal and thereby risk blisters from stomping on plastic slabs all day, or do you go with sneakers to account for all that pavement pounding and thereby risk carrying them around all [...]

Last month at the Erasing the Stigma Leadership Awards, Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos was awarded the Beatrice Stern Media Award, described as an award for those who use “the power of the media to put a positive face on mental illness.” Introducing the award, writer Shawn Amos said: “By shedding the weight ...