Spoon’s shimmering groove “Inside Out” and Dej Loaf’s twinkling Detroit rap hit “Try Me” are two of the songs that snuck up on us the hardest as this past summer drew to a close. And now, in the grand tradition of their Taylor Swift/Kendrick Lamar and Future/Future Islands mash-ups, Chi...

There are a lot of things happening in Reykjavik tonight. This is Iceland Airwaves, after all, one of those festivals where there’s an apparently endless supply of bands playing various bars and venues, thronged by journalists and musicians converging from a whole bunch of different countries. Apparently, tonight — Saturday, ...

The frontman makes the revelation in a new short film called 'Road Dawgs'

It’s become so easy, of late, to think of U2 in international-corporation terms that it’s weirdly surprising to imagine them as human beings who listen to music sometimes. But in a new Rolling Stone story, both Bono and the Edge have a few words on younger bands. Bono, for instance, is all the way into [...]

Baltimore synthpop iconoclasts Future Islands are one of 2014′s great indie success stories. They’ve been great forever, but they’re now headlining bigger and bigger rooms on the strength of their great new album Singles. DJ Dodger Stadium, the L.A. duo of dance producers Jerome LOL and Samo Sound Boy, have been mor...