Mercury Prize

Laura Marling

Crumpet-Baking Englishman James Blake Loves Jeremih's New Mixtape, Collabing with RZA

For James Blake, the differences between his self-titled 2011 debut and its hotly anticipated follow-up, Overgrown, boil down to a pretty simple fact: He had no idea he was writing his way towards a record the first time around, and this time he did. "We came to about 10 songs and I thought, 'Oh, wo ... More >>

Django Django on Django Unchained, and America's Giant Food Portions

Though they share a moniker with some other important Djangos (see: Reinhardt and Freeman a/k/a Unchained), the UK's Django Django carved their own letters into the pop culture lexicon in 2012. They had a sort of unimpeachably successful year: their eponymous debut was appropriately lauded by the mu ... More >>

Alt-J

Django Django

Those "Influential" Albums Being Discussed on Facebook? They're Garbage

Influentialalbums.com is a "quiz" one of your Facebook friends might've posted, boasting "Very few people own 70 or more. How many have you got?" and listing 100 albums ranging from the duh (Blonde on Blonde, Pet Sounds) to the hmmm (Gerry Rafferty? Felt??) to the genuinely bizarre (well, see below) ... More >>

Live: The xx Feel At Home At A Sold-Out Terminal 5

The xx Terminal 5 Thursday, August 2 Better than: Watching one of the 500 iPhone concert videos on YouTube. Near the end of last night's performance, Jamie Smith Oliver Sim—a third of the English indie pop band The xx—needed to make a confession. "We were terrified before we walked on ... More >>

Antony Goes Into the Light

The singer brings his singular vision to Radio City

DANCE WITH HER

Katy B takes her mission to Drom

Laura Marling

James Blake vs. The Machine

A Brit art-world darling finds out what happens when Kid A falls in love

HOT, HOT HEAT

Friendly Fires give you something to dance to