Pitchfork — Face Control, the Handsome Furs' follow-up to Plague Park, is due from Sub Pop on March 10 (not February 3 as previously reported), and the press photos for it are pretty Boner Party. Well, the duo of Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner and Alexi Perry must'v... more info

Pitchfork — T-shirt design by Broken Social SceneJust in time for sweater weather to kick into overdrive, it's another helping of charity t-shirts from the Yellow Bird Project! For the uninitiated, Montreal-based Yellow Bird recruits musicians of note to design ... more info

Pitchfork — T-shirt design by Broken Social SceneJust in time for sweater weather to kick into overdrive, it's another helping of charity t-shirts from the Yellow Bird Project! For the uninitiated, Montreal-based Yellow Bird recruits musicians of note to de... more info

Pitchfork — 'Tis the season for giving and hall-decking and so forth, and in the spirit of both, Oregon's Glass Casters Union is back with another round of indie rock-themed charity ornaments. Last year, the GCU offered up decorations designed by the l... more info

Pitchfork — 'Tis the season for giving and hall-decking and so forth, and in the spirit of both, Oregon's Glass Casters Union is back with another round of indie rock-themed charity ornaments. Last year, the GCU offered up decorations designed by the likes of Wo... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — The families are in town, there is more food than a soup kitchen on steroids, and New York is filled with floating cartoon characters. The Holiday Season is officially under way with the start of one of the best holidays ever created - Thanksgiving!... more info

Pitchfork — When they're not smoochin'-- and when Dan Boeckner's not parading around with those wolves-- Alexei Perry and Mr. Boeckner put in work as Handsome Furs. The two have broken their embrace just long enough to craft the dozen songs that comprise Face Co... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Carlie Armstrong"The band was enthusiastic and animated and even stopped to pepper the crowd with pithy banter," Keegan Hamilton of St. Louis' Riverfront Times A to Z music blog writes of Saturday evening's Wolf Parade show at the city's Gar... more info

XLR8R — For the next four weeks, XLR8R will chat with four indie engineers who invite us into their studios to discuss production philosophies, gear, and how to set your music free. This week we talk to Efrim Menuck of HOTEL2TANGO, which has hosted recording... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — As I was driving from Southie back to Brighton last night, the always-dependable big-ass outdoor bank clock/thermometer/distraction graced me with an abysmal nightime reading of 28°F. Where the F did the summer go? I swear last time I checked I ... more info