After the biggest hit of their career, the indie-quirk all-stars JR JR return from a multi-year break with a new label and two new albums. As they count down their "Five Albums That Shaped My Musical Taste", we learn of how Josh used to call Sunny Day Real Estate band members at home.
After exploring darker themes on their last two full-lengths, Peter Bjorn and John start a brand new tour by diving through their past and rummaging for songs that almost never saw the light of day.
Radical Face issues a thoughtful meditation on the process of getting to know one's self via Therapy and talks about letting go of trauma, the loneliness of knowledge, and what comes next.
For Ribbons, Bibio continues to move away from his defining folktronica sounds and to something increasingly pastoral, revealing to PopMatters what song made him feel palpable heartbreak, why he rarely performs live, and why his new album samples actual cow moos.
Ten years after a medication paralyzed his vocal cords and forced some of his favorite songs out of rotation, Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos can't wait to tour his debut album Manners and perform those songs again.
Music fans were fooled by "Lovefool", and a newly-minted vinyl pressing of the Cardigans "hit" album showed that these Swedish pop-rock one-offs had oh so much more to offer the world.
C Duncan's third album is a staggering portrait of a man willing to divulge his insecurities, his passions, his failures, and hold them up for the entire world to devour.
The Drums' frontman Johnny Pierce is thrilled about taking the sound of the Drums in a more pop-oriented direction as it soon transpires that he had been feeling a little artistically suffocated by what group had become.
Following a hiatus in which its members launched new side projects, Belgian indie band Balthazar return with newfound verve on Fever, their best record yet.
