Crafting their most dynamic album, Arcade Fire explore big concepts from fascinating, impassioned angles, critiquing normalcy on The Suburbs. On Funeral and Neon Bible, the band dealt with alienation and impending doom via songs that were married together, cohering for battle an... Full Review

In their suit and do-rag, respectively, Chromeo's Dave Macklovitch and Patrick Gemayel might look like the kind of duo who'd take themselves too seriously to allow album-release excitement to show through, but they're not. Over the phone from Sweden, they're both utterly genuine, their excitement to be releasing their third album, Business Casual (on Sept. 14) utterly transparent.... Read More

Thomas Barnett, the perennially dreadlocked crooner for long-running Richmond, VA-based punks Strike Anywhere, is a walking punk rock oral history.... Read More