Kane West

Friday's NYC-area shows include Genesis, Taking Back Sunday & Straylight Run, Hot Mulligan, The Menzingers, Kool Keith, Advance Base, and more

French pop artist Yelle hasn't released an album since 2014's Complètement Fou, but things are stirring in her world. She's released two new singles recently, and has just announced a North American tour for the fall.

Saint Etienne are gearing up to release Home Counties, the UK trio's ninth album and first in five years...

London trio Kero Kero Bonito's music pays tongue-in-cheek homage to the shiny plastic future of J-pop, rapping and singing about food, playing videogames, the merits of cats vs dogs and other light conversation...

What is PC Music? A label, a scene, a subgenre, a red herring? It may be all of these things at once. The shadowy operation and its bewildering brand of hyper-pop have been everywhere in the past few months, from UK broadcasters like Rinse FM to the XL Records roster to Boiler Room broadcasts, and its influence seems to be growing on a daily basis...

Tiny Mix Tapes posted their Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014, and as TMT lists usually are, it's a pretty eccentric one with a lot of stuff that wasn't making everyone's list this year...

The best-of 2014 albums lists continue with FACT, who always put out an interesting list and this year is no exception. You've got a few of the year-end list regulars like FKA twigs, Angel Olsen, Ariel Pink, Grouper, YG, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib and Shabazz Palaces, but also a handful of obscurer rap, electronic and experimental c...