When Wet Leg Met Wet Leg Superfan David ByrneThe breakout indie-rock duo and former Talking Heads frontman discuss the perils of fame, the genius of “Psycho Killer,” and being specks of dust.
ByDan Hyman
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Sonic YouthsIn Chicago with Horsegirl, the teen rock trio behind one of the year’s most confident albums.
Rock Isn’t Dead, It Just Moved to CanadaThe New Pornographers, Metric, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, the Weakerthans, Japandroids — it’s a full-on invasion.
‘Guardian’ Calls Brooklyn the Hip New Place for Indie MusicThere’s really only one acceptable explanation for the Guardian’s breathless article about the vitality of the Brooklyn music scene: The editors filed the story back in 2002, misplaced it, found it yesterday, and published it today with some of the band and venue names changed in the hope that readers wouldn’t know the difference.