Interview

If you invite the Brooklyn-based indie rock darlings Widowspeak over to your house for a late-night barbeque, they will insist on cooking only one thing: hot dogs split in half and filled with cream cheese, onions, and Sriracha sauce, all sloppily stuffed into a toasted bun. An urban delicacy in Seattle, they insist.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/04/12

In the vein of Kanye West and Jay-Z's musical Parisian romp, A$AP Rocky and the A$AP Mob briefly expatriate in the NSFW video for the transparently titled "Goldie," determined to engage in typical expat activities. Chief among them are smoking, drinking, and cruising the Champs-Elysées in a decidedly more petite version of the tricked-out rides of their peers.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/03/12

Interview did not know much about Black Light Dinner party before we met them yesterday afternoon. No one did. We'd stumbled across their four electronica-laced indie-rock songs perusing the internet, and had them on repeat ever since. Eager for more, we searched for an album, a city of origin, the names of the band members, and found... nothing.  It seemed BLDP had achieved the impossible—they were entirely, to invent verbs, ungoogleable.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/03/12

On the phone, Frankie Rose is a joy. She comes across as someone who has finally found their footing—infectiously confident, more than a little sarcastic, and eager to talk about anything.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/03/12

Interview's meeting with the Mystery Jets began at a café in North London and ended with a photo shoot at the Natural History Museum, perusing the exhibits for the bands "power animals." We met to talk about the band's fourth studio album, Radlands, which comes out this month.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/02/12

Jim-E Stack is too talented to keep quiet about—the still-teenaged Southern producer's buzz is building with every new track, each an amalgamation of syrupy hip-hop, tripped-up tribal rhythms, an R&B coo, and a bunch of surprises (we suggest his Chris Brown-sampling "Lemme" as a solid representation of the still-growing Stack catalogue).  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/02/12

Sometimes we are overcome by the desire to dance it out, funnel our frustrations through some punk music and non-violent moshing. Not emo, overproduced pop rock or music videos filled with wilting roses and red things turning black—but short, direct songs dominated by rapid guitar strokes and a grainy-feeling lo-fi production.  Fortunately, '70s-style punk is making something of a comeback; Sydney in particular has an active, live punk scene, which is gradually spread to the US via bands such as this week's Discovery, Royal Headache.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/01/12

As May Day heralds the true coming of spring, it's fitting that we premiere "Only Skin," the latest video from New York-based The Spring Standards' yellow//gold. Awash in golden light and shot against lush pastoral landscapes, "Only Skin" envelops one in the warmth of remembrance.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/01/12

Patrick Watson has had a rather eclectic career—he and his band have toured with James Brown, played with Philip Glass and John Cale, and managed to turn a bicycle into an instrument for the song "Beijing." Watson's fourth album, Adventures in Your Own Backyard, is a return to a simpler, more traditional instrumentation—a wispy, optimistic, spring-like folk-pop record. Understated indie the modern, multi-hyphenate way.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/30/12

A decade ago, his band, The White Stripes, helped lead a dirty, dirgey rock 'n' roll revival. Now, suddenly stripes-less and flying solo, Jack White finds himself last man standing—and on the precipice of a new frontier. From the earth to the moon with music's mercurial seeker.

   ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/30/12