Metric uses an exciting blend of psychedelic sounds, electronica, and rock to create a dreamlike feel. "These Toronto-based Broken Social Scene associates amp up the melodies on their fourth album, tapping synthed-out industrial beats to vent their frustrations about the state of modern affairs."--Entertainment Weekly. " ... The Canadian quartet continues to polish its spacey, new wave-colored sound that's heavy with buzzing synths and echoed vocals."--Billboard. "****...

Chvches signature style, uniquely merging the organic with the electronic, an electronic-pop record with a heart,

After three decades together, R.E.M. says farewell to fans with a 40-track collection that spans their entire career. Included are such classics as Radio Free Europe; Losing My Religion; and Man on the Moon. The collection also includes three new tracks that the band finished after they completed recording their final album, Collapse Into Now. "9.4 out of 10 ... does an exceptional job of presenting this body of work as a chronological survey that...

When Seattle band Tacocatvocalist Emily Nokes, bassist Bree McKenna, guitarist Eric Randall, and drummer Lelah Maupinfirst started in 2007, the world they were responding to was vastly different from the current Seattle scene of diverse voices theyve helped foster. It was a world of house shows, booking DIY tours on MySpace, and writing funny, deliriously catchy feminist pop-punk songs when feminism was the quickest way to alienate yourself from the...

2019 release. The Mountain Goats are John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Jon Wurster, and Matt Douglas. They have been making music together as a quartet for several years. Their songs often seek out dark lairs within which terrible monsters dwell, but their mission is to retrieve the treasure from the dark lair and persuade the terrible monsters inside to seek out the path of redemption. They will never leave off this quest until every option has been...

Three years after releasing Scaled and Icy, twenty one pilots return with a brand new album. They have been giving fans cryptic teases of what is to come, including the single Overcompensate.