All signs point to the New York dance-punks the Rapture quietly breaking up. As Consequence Of Sound points out, a press release for an upcoming Red Bull Music Academy event in New York lists guitarist and passionate hyena-yawper Luke Jenner as “formerly of the Rapture.” When self-titled sought clarification, Jonathan Galkin ...

Tonight in Brooklyn dozens of musicians — including members of TV On The Radio, the Clean, the Men, the Rapture, and Interpol among many others — will perform at benefit concert in honor of Yellow Dogs, the Iranian rock band that saw two members and a frequent collaborator gunned down in a horrific murder-suicide last [...]

The concert will also raise money for the deceased's families and surviving members of the New York based band    

Oxford band follow The Rapture and Big Pink in contributing a 'Tapes' DJ mix

The Rapture’s excellent gospel-disco rager “How Deep Is Your Love?” is the better part of a year old now, but its video, in which a dancing Indian In The Cupboard-sized Luke Jenner entertains a bunch of ladies at a tea party, is brand new. It is also ridiculous. Watch it and download the track below. [...]