Plus new albums from Speedy Ortiz, Wire, Built to Spill and Passion Pit

There are lots of reasons to be suspicious of corporate-sponsored music events, but if a shoe company was bringing the Replacements and Dinosaur Jr. to your hometown for a free show, you’d still try to go, right? Later this month, Converse will spend a week at the Sinclair in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a Converse Rubber […]

On Tuesday (April 14) Passion Pit have tossed up their latest album Kindred for streaming via iTunes Radio, along with a note about Angelakos' drawing from his journey

Passion Pit’s music has always carried traces of neon ’80s synthpop, but from the cover art to the song titles, new album Kindred is an explicitly nostalgic callback to Michael Angelakos’ childhood years — the good, bad, and ugly of it all. (As always, even his darkest emotions are shrouded in bright, beau...

The track will feature on their new album 'Kindred', out April 20