Stereogum — ‘Tis the season! Taking a page out of Carly Rae Jepsen’s playbook (right?), Future Islands have offered up a cover of Wham’s oft-covered “Last Christmas” for a late contribution to your indie holiday playlist this year. The band’s very ow... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Sam w/ Future Islands at FFF 2015 (more by Tim Griffin) Milkwaukee indie rapper milo released two albums this year: one under his usual milo moniker called so the flies don't come and another under his Scallops Hotel moniker... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Future Islands singer Samuel T. Herring and guitarist/bassist William Cashion have another band called The Snails (not to be confused with the Philly ska band of the same name who are opening for The Slackers soon). Back in 2013... more info

Stereogum — Samuel T. Herring and William Cashion of Future Islands have a side project called the Snails, and they just released a Christmas song in anticipation of the coming holiday. “Snails Christmas (I Want A New Shell)” is highly tolerable as far as Ch... more info

Stereogum — Toronto jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD played a show at LA’s Tower Theatre last night as a part of Red Bull Sound Select’s 30 Days In LA series. Future Islands frontman Sam Herring made a surprise appearance with the group to perform their remix of “S... more info

Stereogum — Last week, the veteran L.A. abstract-rap motormouth Busdriver shared his new “More” video and announced that he’d be teaming up with Meredith Graves’ Honor Press imprint to release a new 7″. Today, he’s shared two tracks from Thumbs, an a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Chad Wadsworth, Clair Taus, Dave Mead, Greg Giannukos, Jackie Young, Pooneh Ghana, Reagan Hackleman, & Roger Ho Future Islands / Big Freedia / L7 / Lauryn Hill / Off! @ FFF Fest 11/8/2015 We expected the worst, and... more info

Nialler9 — TV still has the capacity to surprise musically as it showed famously last year with Future Islands on Letterman. Dublin trad band Lynched aren’t in that category but in their own small way a live appearance for the Planxty-style band was a monumen... more info

Stereogum — The Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival is bringing superstars, cult favorites, and rising talent to downtown Las Vegas this weekend. Among the lineup’s highlights: Stevie Wonder, Kendrick Lamar, Run The Jewels, Future Islands, Duran Duran, Snoo... more info

Stereogum — When he’s not fronting Future Islands, Samuel T. Herring occasionally moonlights as a rapper. Recently, he’s been putting out stuff under the name Trouble Knows Me (a collaboration with Madlib), but he also has an alter ego called Hemlock Ernst. ... more info