The video clip for “Surf Solar” transformed a rookery of spastic penguins into a kaleidoscope. Going a more straightforward route, the treatment for the Tarot Sport’s “Olympians” finds the Bristol BTW soundtracking one man’s street-lined karate demonstration. Very simple, very awesome. ...

Based on past experience, New York's All Tomorrow's Parties has become the festival you buy tickets for lineup-unseen. But for those who need to know, ATP just expanded the lineup of bands for this year's Weekend At Kutsher's: Saturday will include heavyweights Sonic Youth and the Breeders, as well as ATP favs Explosions In The Sky, Fuck Buttons...

The lovable pop of Love Is Not Pop may have been somewhat overlooked this year, although El Perro Del Mar's got fans in high places helping to rectify the situation with folks from Beirut, Fuck Buttons, and Arcade Fire singling out Sarah Assbring's seven-song set as one of the year's high water marks. The year-end honors continue today, where Po...

Devendra Banhart and Fuck Buttons also play in Minehead

Taking a break from their Tarot Sport(s), Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power offer their distinctively kaleidoscopic crunch to an imploded twisting of Manic Street Preachers' "Virginia State Epileptic Society," a song from the seminal Welsh band's Steve Albini and Dave Eringa produced ninth studio album, Journal For Plague Lovers. Interestingly...