Yesterday Luna announced a run of dates in Spain next spring, their first shows in 10 years, and insinuated that North American dates would follow. Today, in a Rolling Stone interview, Dean Wareham offered further information on the reunion. It seems the band “had a jam” over the summer when guitarist Sean Eden flew to [...]

Luna haven’t played a show since 2/28/05, when Dean Wareham’s post-Galaxie 500 project bowed out at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. Now the lineup of Wareham, Britta Phillips, Sean Eden, and Lee Wall is getting back together for a short tour, though the location is a little surprising. Check the tweet from Wareham himse...

Coldplay’s Ghost Stories is an interesting album for a lot of reasons, and one of those reasons is the subtle way that the band integrates the sounds of the coolly minimal soul-pop currently coming out of the UK. The London duo AlunaGeorge do great work within that sound, and now they’ve remixed Coldplay’s &#822...

Bob Mould is a punk rock legend still bashing out remarkably vigorous and effective anthems. (My co-worker Michael says he’s making the best music of his career right now, which is lunacy, but the mere fact that someone could think that right now is amazing.) But legend status and good songs don’t necessarily guarantee a [...]

Jittery DIY art-punk and spaced-out soul aren’t two genres that seem to have too much in common, but the Brooklyn band Ava Luna has somehow found a way to walk the line between them. The band’s new album Electric Ballroom is out in a couple of weeks, and we’ve already posted one song, “Daydream.”...