Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield Future Islands / Operators @ T5, 1/9/2015 While the rest of his group are efficient, heads-down performers, Herring puts on a rare show. Chest-thumping, growling, jumping, slinking, kicking, and at times crawling around the ... more info

Stereogum — Ask Future Islands: When you can get a real reaction out of David Letterman, a jaded and sarcastic old motherfucker who’s seen everything, that’s something you can hang your hat on. Whatever happens for the rest of their careers, the members of F... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights... Neneh Cherry, Sinkane, Kaki King @ Highline Ballroom Nearly 30 years after "Buffalo Stance" (and with a new, Four Tet-produced LP... more info

Pop Headwound — It’s become way too hard (and not as fulfilling) to try to maintain Pop Headwound as I get older. Music is still there, and it still echoes around my car and my headphones and my living room and it is still affecting me in the same ways it al... more info

Nialler9 — Best of 2014 : Albums | Songs | Readers Irish Albums | Readers Irish songs | Remixes | Videos  Artwork by Stephen Maurice Graham. Here are the final Readers Poll results for this year. Thanks for all your votes. Readers’ favourite Irish gig... more info

Stereogum — 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 converg... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Festival Nrmal is returning to Mexico from February 28 to March 1 in 2015, and the lineup features Swans, Phantogram, Future Islands, Black Angels, Machinedrum, Omar Souleyman, Majical Cloudz, TOPS, Twin Peaks, Peaking Lights, Kirin J Callinan, METZ,... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Photo: Operators in Central Park in September (more by Amanda Hatfield) As discussed, Dan Boeckner's current band Operators are set to support the upcoming Future Islands tour, including the NYC shows on January 8 & 9 at Terminal 5... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Brigid Gallagher St. Vincent, who's finding herself on top of a few year-end lists, has been on tour and earlier this month she hit Chicago for holiday show with the amazing double bill of her and Future Islands.... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — SPIN returned with their Top Albums of 2014 list today. It's got a lot of the indie albums that usually show up on these lists (Caribou, Future Islands, FKA twigs, Parquet Courts, Cloud Nothings, How to Dress Well, Swans,... more info