Indie News

The Postal Service perform during Day 2 of the 2013 Coachella Music Festival on April 13, 2013 in Indio, California.

Duluth experimental rockers Low gave one of the most polarizing performances ever to hit Rock the Garden this month.

Looks like Norbert Leo Butz will go girl-crazy at 54 Below well into the summer.

"We're not really a band," Ben Gibbard said last night as The Postal Service stepped out onstage for its encore.

After the release of Unknown Mortal Orchestra's 2011 self-titled debut, the band spent a lot of time on the road.

Released: Jun 12, 2013 Genre: Post-Rock, Ambient, Shoegaze, Post-Metal Label: XL Recordings Number Of Tracks: 9 Musical experimentation within a band isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Will Sheff, frontman for literate Texan indie band Okkervil River, has lately been busying himself with the DIY synthpop project Lovestreams , but his main band comes roaring back in a couple of months with a new album called The Silver Gymnasium .

An intimate Holy Sons performance of "Bed of Nails II" within the collectable confines of Emil Amos' home studio.

Howdy all, it seems more and more like these rainy summer Mondays blur together in a huge wash of mental regeneration and actually reading the books I've been meaning to read for forever.

Through chance and happy circumstance, there is no other active New Orleans band whose growth I've had the privilege of watching as close-up as the Generationals.

Over the weekend, Duluth, MN's venerable Low performed as part of Saturday's Rock The Garden festival at Minneapolis' Walker Art Center.

Breaking away from her band, The Fiery Furnaces, Eleanor Friedberger returns to the solo scene with her sophomore album Personal Record .

With a decade of perspective, the Postal Service didn't change the songs much. Along with Mr. Gibbard, Mr. Tamborello and Ms.

Ra Ra Riot just played NYC, opening for the second of The Postal Service's two shows at Barclays Center on Saturday .

Still on tour in support of their 2011 release Mountaintops , Mates of State headlined Underground Arts last Thursday.

With summer around the corner, it's time to find new music for those long road trips.

Duluth experimental rockers Low put on one of the most polarizing performances ever to hit Rock the Garden this year.

They may not have played together since 2003, but this year The Postal Service - the one-off project of Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Dntel's Jimmy Tamborello - have reunited for a large tour, including a stop at The Mann Center.

A group of Canadians making dreamy, folk-inspired electronica that sounds a bit like Kate Bush meeting Grimes, Austra specialise in creating haunting mini symphonies where dark, urgent melodies arpeggiating through multiple synthesizers, wrap themselves around lead singer Katie Stelmanis' evocative, ethereal voice.

Maybe I am getting too old for this. There is something about a lot of music which has come out over the last few years which reminds me of music I heard before, when I was a teenager and particularly when I was a young man.