Little Broken Hearts, the Norah Jones’s Danger Mouse-produced breakup album, is coming soon, and we’ve already posted the sharp lead single “Happy Pills.” Below, we’ve got another track from the LP: The comparatively fon... more info

On the last episode of this stirring drama, the Black Key’s called out Nickelback, saying that their music was “watered-down, post-grunge crap, horrendous shit” while generally expressing dismay at the modern establishment of “... more info

For The Journey Is Long, a forthcoming benefit tribute compilation dedicated to the late Gun Club frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce, two of Pierce’s better-known contemporaries have gotten together to cover one of the Gun Club’s songs. Nick Cav... more info

Name: Goldfrapp Progress Report: Alison Goldfrapp talks about The Singles and opens up about the recording of a new album. Earlier this year Goldfrapp released The Singles — a tidy 14-track compendium neatly summing up over a decade of work. Fi... more info

Recently, Sufjan Stevens teamed up with the Anticon artists Son Lux and Serengeti to form the new trio s / s / s; we’ve posted their song “Museum Day.” Their debut album Beak & Claw is out today on Anticon, which eight years ago wou... more info

“Life Of His Own” is the B-side to Sharon Van Etten’s recent single “Leonard,” a spare, meditative ode about an ideal relationship. Stream it at Pitchfork. The “Leonard” single is out now on Jagjaguwar. more info

Santigold is the best, biggest pop star, and the perfect person to rep our pre-apocalyptic polyglot universe. We already had a hunch about this on her debut album, Santogold, which dropped in 2008 and was so strong she was able to tour on it for a go... more info

Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm, the two halves of the Brooklyn duo Tanlines, don’t come from studio-pop. Cohen first came to our attention as the leader of Professor Murder, a clattering and scrappy dance-punk band who figured out, like Liquid Liquid... more info

Yesterday, Arcade Fire gave a lecture entitled “Hope, Haiti & Service” detailing the group’s charitable aspirations in Haiti through Partners In Health. After the lecture, the attending band members — Win and Will Butler as we... more info

Unlike a lot of present-day psych bands, ragged space-rock warriors White Hills give the sense of being out of control, so high on so many things that you’re not sure what’s real anymore. That sense of abandon is also there in the black-a... more info