Alternative-Rock News

Guitarists Korey Cooper, left, and Ben Kascia get the party started Friday night at the Paramount Theatre.

The latest incarnation of revived hip-hop magazine Vibe may be debuting with a controversial cover model , Chris Brown , but its new owner's plans for the pub seem pretty sound.

Remember when those imps over at Driftwood Singers made you dilute your enthusiasm for the Arcade Fire by comparing them to... Eddie and the Cruisers ? Now they make hay with our Julian Casablancas adoration...by exhuming an unexpected precedent: Eddie Money !

November 2nd, 2009 9:51am The singer - I'm not sure of their gender! - sounds rather like Geddy Lee, and the band makes the Arcade Fire sound like a very restrained duo.

These fine young men call themselves Yeasayer and will have their sophomore album ready for February 2010 a Is it too early to look ahead to already announced albums with 2010 release dates? No, especially when those releases carry the clout of such bands as Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer and Arcade Fire.

High Gravity is Paste editor-in-chief Josh Jackson's daily round-up of music, film and culture - and even great beer.

Simian Mobile Disco were already dead once, so it's probably useless to alert them of their suicide mission.

Peter Gabriel is set to release an orchestral covers album featuring the likes of Radiohead , Arcade Fire , Elbow and Bon Iver .

The Unforgettable Fire , U2 Mercury/Island U2 has been massive for so long, and Bono so ubiquitous, that ita s easy to forget they were once an act concerned with becoming a a oesloganeering arena-rock band.a As they prepared to record their fourth album in 1984, they were the Arcade Fire of their day: almost universally accepted by critics, well ...

A charity record featuring contributions from Arcade Fire , Cat Power , Bon Iver , Grizzly Bear , My Morning Jacket and David Byrne has raised over A 400,000 for The Red Hot Organization , which helps HIV/AIDS charities across the globe.

CLOSE Music Reviews The moniker Abandon Kansas is remarkably fitting for this four-piece alternative rock outfit hailing from Wichita.

Despite the 36, wind howling and salt spray on the lens....I had the most fantastic day with Kay and Sandy right here in New England... what a treat.. I have been in love with Kay for a long long time.... yes Mrs SG knows and pretends she's not jealous... A day with Kay and Sandy ... through my lens... Kay and Sandy at SG's... This is what they ...

I've recently completed a job assignment to design characters and create a world for a video game for the casual game market entitled "Gem Troll." The commissioning developer was Halifax's Silverback Productions.

Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry and composer Nico Muhly have written an orchestral composition titled "For Heart And Breath And Orchestra." Perry and Muhly will perform the piece with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony at Toronto's Koerner Hall at the Royal Conservatory Of Music as part of Muhly's "Nico's Choice" event.

GRIEF CAN BE a great inspiration for indie rock. The Arcade Fire wrote its full-length debut, " Funeral ," after the deaths of grandparents, and Bon Iver decamped to the wilds of Wisconsin to eulogize a broken-up band and nurse a broken heart on " For Emma, Forever Ago ." With their second studio album, Californians Port O'Brien have made their own ...

On this soundtrack to Spike Jonze's new movie, Karen O and pals from Deerhunter, the Raconteurs and her band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs roll out punked-up folk pop that's haunted yet playful.

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Rome, Italy-based band JUGGERNAUT will release its debut album, "...Where Mountains Walk" , in November via Subsound Records .

The threat of rain did not stop more than 7,500 people from showing up for the seventh annual Youthquake at the Cullman County Fairgrounds Saturday afternoon.

One of the hottest Canadian bands, the Arcade Fire, are treating Canterbury High School students to an impromptu concert.